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At least 330 COVID-19-related medical papers have been retracted since the coronavirus pandemic began, oftentimes for scientific errors or ethical shortcomings.
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.