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—Tufts Medical Center’s Michael Dansinger, in a letter addressed to a peer reviewer who rejected his Annals of Internal Medicine manuscript and then published it elsewhere with a group of Italian researchers (December 13)

—Journalists Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, in a STAT News piece that described Dansinger’s struggle with the Annals of Internal Medicine peer reviewer (December 12)

Charles Branas, a University of Pennsylvania epidemiologist, discussing a recent JAMA Internal Medicine paper that modeled gunshot violence spreading through social networks in Chicago (January 4)

—National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins talking to STAT News about the future of the agency under the Trump Administration (December 16)

—Former World Health Organization Director-General Halfdan Mahler, who died in mid-December at age 93, espousing his view ...

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