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Development Social Science in medical journals: diagnosis is caveat emptor

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Aid Watch has complained before about shaky social science analysis or shaky numbers published in medical journals, which were then featured in major news stories. We questioned  creative data on stillbirths , a study on health aid , and another on maternal mortality . Just this week, yet another medical journal article got headlines for giving us the number of women raped in the DR Congo (standard headline: a rape a minute ).

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