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Jonathan Leo Ph.D., LMU, De Busk, Harrogate, JAMA, Fontanarosa, BMJ

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March 13, 2009, 1:18 PM ET JAMA Editor Calls Critic ‘a Nobody and a Nothing’

By David Armstrong
Editors of The Journal of the American Medical Association, better known as JAMA, can be a little thin-skinned when it comes to outsiders taking issue with studies published in the prestigious medical journal.

Jonathan Leo, a professor of neuro-anatomy at tiny Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn., posted a letter on the Web site of the British Medical Journal this month criticizing a study that appeared in JAMA last spring.
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Leo says he received an angry call from JAMA executive deputy editor Phil Fontanarosa last week, shortly after Leo’s article was published on the BMJ Web site. “He said, ‘Who do you think you are,’ ” says Leo. “He then said, ‘You are banned from JAMA for life. You will be sorry. Your school will be sorry. Your students will be sorry.”

Read the entire amazing elitist comedy here.

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Update:


Leo response here.
WSJ update here.
One more while we're at it, from today's MedPage Today.

El updato from Chicago.

And sure, Contento is connected to this story and to Dr. Leo. Just ask him how and he'll tell you. And that's more disclosure than you'll get from the esteemed peer reviewed medical journal JAMA.