I really don’t think this happens at all in medicine. I think it may actually work the complete opposite. I think it’s hierarchal and that doctors can risk harming their careers by speaking up. It seems to me like they just want to get along at all costs rather than call anyone out for doing anything unethical or printing something that is incorrect.

There are multiple cases where the glans of the clitoris is claimed to be 1–2 cm long or 1.5–2 cm long, when the real average length is clearly, obviously, visibly 5.1–5.4 mm (according to studies). There are also multiple cases where the body is labeled as the glans or the body is defined to include the glans. I am consistently the first person to ever email the authors or editors about this, and it seems like they do nothing. No one ever writes a letter to an editor. No one seems to care.

Maybe this is just an isolated case of misogyny, but it doesn’t seem like doctors are incentivized to correct other doctors in general.