在BMJ中的COVID-19倡导偏见:元研究评估评估
Kasper P Kepp1,2, Ioana Cristea1,3, Taulant Muka2,4
1Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
BMJ open quality
|March 3, 2025
概括
BMJ杂志对倡导积极的COVID-19政策的作者表现出显著的偏见,他们的作品比其他团体发表得不成比例. 这种宣传偏见可能会影响公众论和政策,强调在未来的健康危机中需要进行平衡的辩论.
科学领域:
- 医学新闻和出版业 医学新闻和出版业
- 公共卫生政策 公共卫生政策
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 在COVID-19大流行期间,在包括BMJ在内的基于证据的医学期刊上有大量的出版物.
- 人们担心BMJ发表有关特定COVID-19政策的观点的潜在偏见.
- 倡导特定的流行病缓解策略可能影响了科学话语.
研究的目的:
- 评估BMJ的COVID-19相关出版物中宣传的存在和潜在偏见.
- 将COVID-19政策倡导者的出版频率与BMJ中的对照组进行比较.
- 评估宣传在疫情期间对科学传播的影响.
主要方法:
- 一个Scopus搜索确定了在BMJ发表的COVID-19和SARS-CoV-2相关项目,截至2024年4月13日.
- 在大流行 (2020-2023) 和大流行前 (2016-2019) 期间,出版物数量和类型进行了比较.
- 分析的群体包括积极措施 (indieSAGE,疫苗-Plus) 的倡导者,政府的SAGE成员,大巴林顿宣言签署者,备受引用的科学家和丰富的COVID-19作者.
主要成果:
- 122位作者在BMJ发表了超过5篇与COVID-19相关的文章,18位来自积极措施倡导团体.
- 积极措施的倡导者在流行病期间在BMJ存在方面显著超过了对照组.
- 这种差异主要是由意见稿和分析驱动的,一些倡导者在疫情前曾在英国医学杂志上发表过文章.
结论:
- BMJ表现出强烈的偏见,赞成那些主张积极的COVID-19缓解策略的作者.
- 这种倡导偏见可能会影响公众论和政策决策.
- 未来的健康危机需要减轻宣传偏见,以确保对政策选择进行公开和平衡的辩论.
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