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Editorial
. 2022 Sep 6;19(9):e1004099.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004099. eCollection 2022 Sep.

Time to end parachute science

Beryne Odeny  1 , Raffaella Bosurgi  1
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Editorial

Time to end parachute science

Beryne Odeny et al. PLoS Med. .
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I have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: The author’s individual competing interests are at http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/s/staff-editors. PLOS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLOS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salaries are not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).

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