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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]
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:30PM (2 children)
We agree on the trajectory, but not the outcome. Armed Antifa and Woke are seizing territory in American cities and burning and looting and killing. The government is allowing it to happen, which means the reaction will not be controlled and will consume everyone and everything. Cast your lot carefully, because it matters.
It sounds like you're betting on the overlords of CHAZ/CHOP, who are already falling out among themselves and are failing at the basic machinery of life like sanitation, food, organization, etc. Meanwhile the other side is quietly cleaning its weapons and adding to the stockpile of ammunition they have been amassing for decades.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @04:41PM
The "other side" is quietly wondering what the darn kids are yapping about now and turning up the TV.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @03:04AM
Have you considered switching careers? Because the fiction you're writing might make you some money.