BMJ  2007;335 (25 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.39315.563889.47

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We thrive on feedback at the BMJ, and boy do we get a lot of it—some invited, some not, much of it in the form of friendly criticism (we like that), some of it rude (that can be ok too), most of it replied to (I hope), much of it posted on bmj.com, all of it useful in one way or another.

Recently we inadvertently hit on a rich source of accidental feedback, from authors in the first flush of rejection. As advised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, we send emails to all authors on a paper so they know what's going on and no one is listed as an author without knowing about it (this does happen). Stung by our rejection email, some authors hit "reply all" and let fly their invective. "Miserable gits," wrote one author to his colleagues. "Pearls before swine," wrote another.

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