A Dermatology Journal's Essay on a Chinese Ink Painting Isn't a Study

The Journal of Investigative Dermatology's August 2026 issue carries a two-page Letters to the Editor essay, not a study, in which two dermatologists and an artist read Xu Beihong's 1930s ink painting Eight Horses as an argument for training clinicians to look closely; it cites no data for that claim.