As written before I never published any study that included a Mendelian randomization. The reasons are well known.
A new paper from Bristol discusses the recent explosion of low-quality two-sample Mendelian randomization studies and offers a cure.
We advise editors to simply reject papers that only report 2SMR findings, with no additional supporting evidence. For reviewers receiving such papers, we provide a template for rejection.
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