Researchers Retract Over 300 COVID-Era Medical Papers For Scientific Errors, Ethical Concerns
At least 330 COVID-19-related medical papers have been retracted since the coronavirus pandemic began, oftentimes for scientific errors or ethical shortcomings.
Looks like a mix of papers on both sides of certain contentious topics were retracted.
Ivermectin for example. I skimmed thru the Retraction Watch report, and out the two ivermectin papers I skimmed, one was saying it appeared to be effective, the other was saying there were no significant effects.
Interesting.
Exactly. Even with a minimum of 90,000 there are going to be bad papers on both sides of every question. So there will still be plenty of ammo for both sides. None of these articles mention vaccines per se, only "covid," so this contention and confusion may be only a part of the story.
"I followed the science, but I couldn't find it, so I followed the money, and there I found the science."
This
All to never see the light of day again.
No. I made a post about this yesterday, just because I was pretty sure no one would read past the title and there would be a lot of pearl clutching over it. Read the article! This is 300 out of 90,000! It is not taking away the crucial argument against your favorite gripe, it is leaving 89,700 studies pro and con on every topic related to covid. One that was removed was the infamous, made-up study bashing hydroxychloroquine that was published in Lancet. It should be wiped clean and the authors made to grovel. Another was a study about tinnitus. Couldn't answer its own questions. No matter how fervently you believe that covid or vaccines cause tinnitus, you aren't doing the world of knowledge any favors by leaning on weak studies.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/over-300-covid-19-papers-withdrawn-for-not-meeting-standards-of-scientific-soundness_5293140.html? utm_source=Health&src_src=Health&utm_cam
The point of this rant is that there is a lot of garbage research on every subject and it does need to be sorted and critically reviewed. Covid was a boon to thousands of academics desperate to get their names published and I predict there will be a lot more studies retracted.
My point of posting is to make people aware that it is being wiped, good or bad, just that it is being done. As always, who decides what gets published and what gets retracted. That's where the attention needs to be.
I should clarify that 90,000 seems to be the minimum and other articles have estimates up to 450,000 research papers, e.g. another from the Epoch Times, https://archive.is/fwRfe. That's years of reading and checking. This article focuses more on how many times the retracted papers were cited: an average of 53 times each. And retractions don't lead to retraction of citations, so the HCL story, for instance, is going to pop up forever. This article does get into the admission that these bad papers led to treatment decisions, like putting people on Remdesvir, which I see as a step in the right direction.
Well everyone needs a hobby but bad things happen when ethics are not upheld
Un Freaking Believable.