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Case 23 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Limit of the answer in “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: “Record the ...

Case 33 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: t...

Case 27 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation · source wording exercise The same abbreviation has different meanings in neighbourin...

Link both versions, record dates and check whether methods or conclusions changed. Publication status is useful context but is not itself a guarantee ...

Summary draft for “Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing?”: the answer addresses “Create separate columns for the quant...

Each entry should retain the date, old text, corrected text, reason and source reference. For a publisher notice, link the notice as well as the origi...

Case 30 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”:...

Case 8 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? Proposed correction: documentation supplied; method and sample linkage in...

Case 21 — A correction log for an archive article Identify the original error and the corrected text, date the correction and link the source. Keep th...

Clarification for “Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion”: the point beginning “List materials, measurement conditions, controls and...

Clarification for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: the point beginning “Identify population, design, comparator, outcome…” belongs ...

Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.