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Charles Piller

In June 2020, in the biggest research scandal of the pandemic so far, two of the most important medical journals each retracted a high-profile study of COVID-19 patients. Thousands of news articles, tweets, and scholarly commentaries highlighted the scandal, yet many researchers apparently failed to notice. In an examination of the most recent 200 academic articles published in 2020 that cite those papers, Science found that more than half—including many in leading journals—used the disgraced papers to support scientific findings and failed to note the retractions.

COVID-19 “is such a hot topic that publishers are willing to publish without proper vetting,” even in the face of retractions that made global headlines, says Elizabeth Suelzer, a reference librarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin who has written about problematic citations to a retracted 1998 study in The Lancet falsely linking vaccination to autism.

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Many Scientists Citing Two Scandalous Covid-19 Papers Ignore Their Retractions

Science MagazineThis story was supported by the Science Fund for Investigative Reporting. Please help Science pursue ambitious journalism projects.

Charles Piller

In June 2020, in the biggest research scandal of the pandemic so far, two of the most important medical journals each retracted a high-profile study of COVID-19 patients. Thousands of news articles, tweets, and scholarly commentaries highlighted the scandal, yet many researchers apparently failed to notice. In an examination of the most recent 200 academic articles published in 2020 that cite those papers, Science found that more than half—including many in leading journals—used the disgraced papers to support scientific findings and failed to note the retractions.

COVID-19 “is such a hot topic that publishers are willing to publish without proper vetting,” even in the face of retractions that made global headlines, says Elizabeth Suelzer, a reference librarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin who has written about problematic citations to a retracted 1998 study in The Lancet falsely linking vaccination to autism.

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2 comments:

  1. Bottom line is Ferguson and his fantasy estimates were not only trashed but he has been brought back by Boris.

    There's good and bad with Boris his train crashes with Gibralter and a border in the Irish Sea have been stunning in their unbelievability.

    His antics re covid19 is not at all humourous. It's diabolical and unending.

    Fauci is going to be exposed the little sewer rat that he is. The information is out there's and the MSM blockade will crack and burst sooner rather than later.

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  2. Larry

    "His antics re covid19 is not at all humourous. It's diabolical and unending."

    Like delaying the first lockdown costing 10,000 lives; not having a circuit breaking lockdown in November as urged by Keir Starmer and not cancelling Christmas which has led to the explosion of infections causing an even higher death toll this month than last April.

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