That set off a fiery response from JAMA. According to Drs Leo and Lacasse, Dr DeAngelis rang up Dr Leo and his boss to express her displeasure in strong terms.
Alas, as Jeffrey Lacasse of Arizona State University and Jonathan Leo of Lincoln Memorial University pointed out in a letter published in JAMA last October, Dr Robinson failed to clarify that important point in his paper.
On his account of events, he then endured five months of silence before assuming that JAMA was not going to act he and Dr Lacasse published their revelations in a letter to the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on March 5th.