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posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 15 2020, @11:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-be-in-such-a-hurry dept.

The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals (archive)

One study promised that popular blood-pressure drugs were safe for people infected with the coronavirus. Another paper warned that anti-malaria drugs endorsed by President Trump actually were dangerous to these patients.

The studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet, were retracted shortly after publication, following an outcry from researchers who saw obvious flaws.

The hasty retractions, on the same day this month, have alarmed scientists worldwide who fear that the rush for research on the coronavirus has overwhelmed the peer review process and opened the door to fraud, threatening the credibility of respected medical journals just when they are needed most.

[...] "The problem with trust is that it's too easy to lose and too hard to get back," said Dr. Jerome Kassirer, a former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, which published one of the retracted papers in early May. "These are big blunders."

If outside scientists detected problems that weren't identified by the peer reviewers, then the journals failed, he said. Like hundreds of other researchers, Dr. Kassirer called on the editors to publish full explanations of what happened.

See also: US FDA pulls its emergency approval of chloroquine use for COVID-19

[NB: This follows up on "Doubt Looms Over Hydroxychloroquine Study That Halted Global Trials" which was part of 2020-06-15 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories --martyb]


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:47AM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:47AM (#1008440)

    Once again, correlation is not causation. The maps I just looked at show that covid is just taking a little more time to get to the poorer parts of the world, possibly because there isn't so much international travel to those places where poverty and malaria are common. Give it another few weeks (just a guess) and it will be there too.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday June 16 2020, @11:55AM (7 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday June 16 2020, @11:55AM (#1008550) Journal

    I dunno about you but I would give more exposure to one thing that has a direct correlation with less deaths over one that has an inverse correlation with them.

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    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @12:29PM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @12:29PM (#1008566)

      You also worship a dead god who must be resurrected every spring in a pagan ritual.

      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 16 2020, @12:56PM (2 children)

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday June 16 2020, @12:56PM (#1008584) Journal

        Boy did you fail Div School. It's a commemoration of the Son of God who defeated death, not a cyclical repetition of that act like the Mayan re-lighting of the sun or something.

        Anyway why are you so dismissive of pagans? I am not one, but they seem to have a good time. Did someone pee in your Cheerios this morning?

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @10:51PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @10:51PM (#1008895)

          Odd that you read that as being dismissive of pagans like you're some kind of concern troll who likes to claim he was close to Clinton's inner circle and left in a huff of moral indignation about thos libruls.

          Face it, Man Jeebus is just yet another dead/dying god and a particularly antisocial one. He doesn't even carpool with the others who migrate between the heavens and the underworld.

          • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @02:26AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @02:26AM (#1008992)

            Sock puppets and secret SN Pinky Brigade.

            Just mock Bot, Phoenix666, The Mighty Buzzard, or Fustikrach any time they start up their washing machines.

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday June 16 2020, @05:05PM (1 child)

        by Bot (3902) on Tuesday June 16 2020, @05:05PM (#1008740) Journal

        >dead god
        oxymoron, kid

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @10:19PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @10:19PM (#1008885)

          James George Frazier [wikipedia.org] disagreed, but then the worshipers of the dead god threatened to deplatform him.

      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @11:46PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @11:46PM (#1008925)

        Bot worships Punxsutawney Phil? I knew there was something strange about him. Thought he was an Eye-talion?