Tabitha M. Powledge discusses a report on escalating death rates among middle-aged white Americans, including the paper's circuitous route toward publication: "The paper that has grabbed so much attention has a noteworthy history: it was rejected by what are arguably the world’s two top journals: the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine." It was finally published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
November 7, 2015
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