The World Journal of Oncology has retracted a 2022 article that said e-cigarette users face the same cancer risk as smokers of combustible cigarettes.

The editors said: “Following publication of the article, concerns were raised about the methodology, the handling of source data, including statistical analysis, and the reliability of the conclusions… The article has been retracted at the editor’s request because the author failed to provide reasonable explanations and evidence for the investigation.”

Many of the concerns raised by the editor of the retracted article mirror problems with other studies that have linked e-cigarettes to smoking-related illnesses.

The study failed to address whether the diagnosis was made before or after people started vaping, which is the minimum required to infer cause and effect. In 2020, the same issue led the Journal of the American Heart Association to retract an article reporting that anti-nicotine activist Glantz, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, suggested a link between e-cigarettes and heart attacks.

Jacob Sullum of Reason writes that the World Journal of Oncology paper, written by at least 13 researchers from institutions including the University of Missouri, Temple University Hospital, the Mayo Clinic and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, had other problems they missed that should have been obvious before publication.

This article has many inconsistencies, writing errors, illogical and failed reasoning that make you wonder if peer reviewers and editors have actually read it, let alone carefully evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. So how on earth does a paper like this pass peer review?

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