The form that the incomplete data took was part of the problem. Adding numbers to a spreadsheet is one thing. When the same data takes the form of an NJEM or L

The form that the incomplete data took was part of the problem. Adding numbers to a spreadsheet is one thing. When the same data takes the form of an NJEM or Lancet paper, it definitely implies--and some cases, outright says--more than "FYI: 37/53 people got better when we did [this]." Part of this is how papers are ordinarily written, but I think the authors (and editors) should have stopped all over the word "improvement" in those manuscripts.