The company said it apologized for the error some months ago and that an explanation was given to Fugh-Berman, the medical journal, the other author and AstraZeneca.

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What really interest me about this is that, entirely independently, the same explanation is made for the measurement error here.

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The most parsimonious explanation for a big miss is measurement error, but there is a trend worth watching.

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Last time, I accepted the explanation that it had been an innocent error.

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The most likely explanation, he says, is an undiscovered error, rather than a breakdown in the laws of gravity.

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