Citation

Ream GL. J. Adolesc. Health 2019; 64(6): 811.

Affiliation

School of Social Work, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.03.020

PMID

31122511

Abstract

“Inflated” is the wrong complaint, directed at the wrong people. All the material facts that Clark et al. state about National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) data are true. I stipulate to them in my article. The reviewers and editors of the Journal of Adolescent Health knew about them when they chose to favorably review my article and accept it for publication. One can state the 24% figure in the context of those qualifiers, as I do in my article, without going beyond the data. However, a firm statement that the 24% figure is “inflated” would go beyond the data. Reporting the 24% figure without appropriate qualification is, arguably, intellectually dishonest. However, that happened on Twitter, not in the Journal of Adolescent Health. There is only so much responsibility that journal article authors, reviewers, and editors can accept for Twitter.

Language: en