Remember that terrible vitamin D preprint?
The one that went viral despite massive issues?
It has now been removed from the preprint server it was on


https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3771318 …pic.twitter.com/QROreS2nQ7
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Saw that today! So happy! It was really terrible!
Much faster than the retraction of any published paper. CC: @dnunan79
Retraction of preprints: another great achievement of #COVID science (it did not exist before). When all the trigger-happy "retraction NOW" crowd cools down, maybe we'll reflect on what it all means.
But @DavidDavisMP professor of medicine in the ERG which is apparently a research group (definitley not a pompous self promoting group of people with no research credentials) said it was great.
Who to believe. David Davis or all the scientists.. Hmmm..
Not surprised. The word salad about randomisation was just too embarrassing.
I think the concerns over ethics may have been what prompted this. The authors replies have not been reassuring
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