A few weeks back I blogged about an error-ridden paper from pharmaceutical company Janssen. It reported on the failure of a candidate antidepressant, JNJ-18038683. But it was rubbish: the Abstract contradicted the results of the study, wrongly claiming that the drug did statistically significantly better than placebo in a particular analysis, when it didn't. And they repeatedly mixed up the names of two other antidepressants.
I posted on May 17th. On May 23rd, a new version of the offending article quietly appeared on the journal's website: here it is. But the old version is still up, although I'm not sure it's intended to be, because the link is gone, so I think the only way to find it is from this blog.
Interestingly, the new manuscript corrects those two issues I noted. As far as I can see those are the only changes. Coincidence?
The original paper was a "Fast ...
