Thisstudy echoes a paper released in November by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which found that customers end up paying higher prices for goods and services because the fees that a seller pays to Visa and MasterCard are built into the retail price.
Leszczynski argued that the limitations of thisstudy amounted to failure of the peer review system and called for the retraction of the paper and an investigation into why it was published in the first place.
"She read a paper about this new procedure called radiofrequency ablation, and she wrote to the doctor who did the study, and asked him for the best place to go in the Northeast, " says James Parles, a pediatrician in Smithtown, New York.