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Usually when we critique a meta analysis, maybe four or five of the criteria are met. for a good one, eight to ten are met. i have also never called for the retraction of a paper before, but in this this is a very serious lapse of scientific integrity, in my view. professor littell argues that profesor coleman didn t given enough detail as to how she identified previous research to use, so her work couldn t be replicated. the scientific quality of those studies wasn t clearly assessed, and, littell says, in combining studies to produce an overall average, coleman s method counted the same women multiple times. newsnight has spoken to an independent expert, who agreed there were significant questions as to how this study was conducted. a review co authored by the royal college of psychiatrist, the owner of the journal which published coleman s paper, also found that methodological problems brought into question coleman s results. we should say not all ....