Bravo, brave BMJ, for the rapid response section

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BMJ 2002;325:223 ( 27 July )

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Bravo, brave BMJ, for the rapid response section

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EDITOR $---$ As a subspecialist who formerly rarely read a generalist journal, I am a total convert to the BMJ, this treasury offree thinking and repartee. The rapid response section not onlyleads to a democratisation of science and medicine (formerly wewere prevented from free participation by the whims of editors),but unpublished ideas can be circularised, and this can lead toresearch and changes.¹ Imagine Leonardo da Vinci in today'sresearch climate without a research grant. Many of his ideas wouldhave been ridiculed aspreposterous.

I think a section of "New Ideas" needs discussion, and even a place where that negative result or study that has never seenthe light of day can be mentioned. I with other colleagues spentseveral years on a large prospective study of ploidy in lung cancer,which refuted an inferior positive study we had published in theLancet. . . . [Full text of this article]

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