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  • This is kind of misleading, because the “journal” was specifically requesting fictionalized case studies for teaching purposes. This was made clear to authors, but perhaps not always to readers. This is pretty common and well known in medical literature, as a way to protect patient privacy, and is usually separated from more “hard case studies,” though it seems that this is not always clear in some contexts.

    The issue here is that one of the stories was actually just entirely misinformation (about opiates and breastfeeding) rather than a fictionalized version of a real case. So the “fictionalized” case study journal is publishing clarification that the stories are embellished. The bigger note is that they didn’t actually do a full retraction of that actually bad paper, but seem to be “reminding” people that their case studies are fictionalized as a CYA move.