Critical review of Article 11 in the New England Journal of Public Policy, 37, 1, 2025
Dear editors, in June 2025, your journal New England Journal of Public Policy published an article by Scott Atran, Ángel Gómez et al. entitled How Gaza Sees the 2023–2025 War and the Future of the Israel-Palestine Conflict . The article comprises an analysis of the results of a opinion survey carried out in Gaza earlier this year. I am writing to alert you to the methodological errors, reproducibility issues and possible falsification / fabrication of data or results that it contains which, in my opinion and that of my colleagues, are serious enough to warrant its retraction from the Special Issue : Ending Wars. In this review, I examine the serious shortcomings of this publication and their consequences: casting suspicion on the Gazan civilian population for not wanting peace and holding them responsible for their massacre. On such a highly sensitive issue, rigorous analysis is essential to the prestige of our community of social scientists. The first deficiency is ...