One could, I suppose, easily rap out a series of such articles on alleged word exhaustion: I'd start with "brilliant," which, at least from my perspective, has been ground by overuse (especially, you'll pardon me, in book reviews) into sheer pointlessness.
Despite Facebook's move this week to ban phony news sites from using its advertising network, the company's attempt to quell criticism that it influenced the outcome of the presidential election will do little to thwart the spread of such articles on its platform.
There should be research on improving the readability of such articles, while at the same time retaining their technical merits.
We want to continue the highly successful Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine and encourage continued submissions of such articles, focused on either clinical practice or population-based practice, especially from developing countries.
Although the technical quality of journal articles may have been helped by recommendations on structured reporting, the readability of such articles has received little attention.
Here's an idea: how about instead of needlessly scaring the public, you hold off on publishing such articles until credible studies have been released supporting your bombastic postulations?
While The Los Angeles Times played such articles on its front page on each of the past three days, Leo C. Wolinsky, the paper's deputy managing editor, said he felt that the Monday coverage in particular -- which continued on less than a full page inside -- was, in hindsight, too sparse.
JAMA and a few other journals have begun to post such articles on their Web site.
(There were two such articles, on Jan . 23and Feb. 6, 1966, both available in my collection "Persons of the Drama").
We compiled a list of scientific journals that have either published articles on HCV epidemiology and prevention, or might conceivably publish such articles based on a history of publishing articles in a similar field (HIV epidemiology, for example).
