BMJ  2007;335 (13 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.39363.612095.47

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The way of the world

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This week I clicked the Send button without realising that my email was being shared with the person I was writing about. I was warning colleagues that I'd banned a persistent respondent "from raving on about" his pet theory using rapid responses and didn't want him opening up another front using feedback to Richard Lehman's blog.

While the respondent ponders whether my "less than polite" response deserves wider exposure, I'm pondering whether I should have "sender's remorse" for describing his behaviour in the terms I did. After all, this followed 17 rapid responses (his count) on the same topic from him and three emails from me, asking him to stop.

Thoughts about appropriate tone were running through my head when I read David Colquhoun's criticisms of our associate editor (and former US editor), Doug Kamerow, for being "excessively tolerant" of the advance of complementary and alternative medicine (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39360.446528.BE). . . . [Full text of this article]

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