Emergency medicine research and gender: Sensitivity and censorship

(Many others chose not to submit comments for publication and attribution, including the authors of comments that were embarrassing, inaccurate, vulgar and threatening.) This incident underscores a number of important, and also several troubling, issues impacting research that deals with gender in any sense (physician, patient, epidemiology, etc.). AJEM does not, understandably, develop or retain demographic data, for example, on its reviewers’ race or ethnicity. [...]racial, ethnic or gender quotas should never be an explicit criterion for participation in the editorial review process. [...]moving forward AJEM will be more structured and proactive in identifying and mitigating the special methodological risks posed by observational studies that invoke gender, however it has no intention to capitulate to clumsy imprecations of “followers” with a sociopolitical agenda or solicit “hits” from cursory voyeurs of our specialty.