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A total nothing-burger email from Clare. I don't think this is the appropriate action from Nature so I suggest writing back to her saying that we would like a little more to be done here, including contacting the reviewers to better understand the breach. I'd cc Skip this time. [shared file(s): RE: Breach of reviewer confidentiality - leaked tojournalist]
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I am not that surprised - there is not much she could do other than give a warning the reviewers (and she doesn't know for sure which one it is). I think it is just good that she knows about this in case DT tries to contact Nature tomake a complaint or something (unlikely as that would remove his anonymity).
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I suggest just replying and saying thanks we just wanted to her to know that there was someone trying to cause griefin case she got embroiled in it. I can't see any benefit in demanding anything from Nature - we don't want them to beupset with us.
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@Kristian Andersen Are you able to do anything? Or do we just press the transfer to MedRxiv button?
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2020-07-31 09:47
Kristian G. Andersen
@Kristian Andersen I unfortunately can't do anything on my end - I only get the paper once it's through the first step. Does it have human data in it? If yes, then MedRxiv is required
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@Kristian Andersen Whether someone is dead or not?
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@Kristian Andersen So will transfer. Thanks.
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@Kristian Andersen Yeah, if you have data like that in there that requires human subjects research approval so itends up with MedRxiv...
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Yeah, I agree we don't want to push it - however, from the email it doesn't appear that Clare thought about doing anything at all, which I really don't think is appropriate here - at a minimum she needs to contact the reviewers about the breach. I don't think that's an unreasonable request? I would kinda hope journals would take breachesseriously...