About the Authors

John P. A. Ioannidis

Affiliation Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine and Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Lamberto Manzoli

lmanzoli@post.harvard.edu

Affiliation Section of Hygiene, Epidemiology, Pharmacology and Legal Medicine, University “G. d'Annunzio” of Chieti, Chieti, Italy

Corrado De Vito

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Maddalena D'Addario

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Paolo Villari

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPAI LM PV. Performed the experiments: JPAI LM CDV MD. Analyzed the data: JPAI LM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPAI LM CDV MD PV. Wrote the paper: JPAI.