Talk:Rob Knight (biologist)
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Potential methodological problems with the Nature cancer microbiome paper
[edit]Knight's lab published a paper in 2020 in Nature regarding the cancer microbiome [1]; recent results have shown major flaws in the data and methods used in the paper [2]. It has been noteworthy [3], so it's possible that a section could be added to the article addressing it once the refutation paper has gone through peer review.
[1] Poore GD, et al. (2020),"Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2095-1
[2] Gihawi A, et al. (2023), "Major data analysis errors invalidate cancer microbiome findings", https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.28.550993v1
[3] Offord C (2023), "'Major errors’ alleged in landmark study that used microbes to identify cancers", https://www.science.org/content/article/major-errors-alleged-landmark-study-used-microbes-identify-cancers Amacbride (talk) 13:46, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
- Agree that this might be mentioned at some point - but at this point it is maybe too early, should wait for further coverage. AncientWalrus (talk) 20:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
- Nature have retracted this paper. More here ... Bon courage (talk) 18:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
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