Persistence of contradicted claims in the literature.

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Published in JAMA on December 05, 2007

Authors

Athina Tatsioni1, Nikolaos G Bonitsis, John P A Ioannidis

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece.

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