Stumbled on this paper about a retracted vitamin D study last year, and it is a WILD RIDE This paper got 100,000s of downloads on SSRN, and changed worldwide policy It also might have been...entirely fraudulent?https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7443564/ …
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While none of this definitively proves fraud, it is a wild story, especially given the enormous global impact this study had
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The global impact wasn't limited to news reports - the paper has been cited ~100 times so far, i.e. this recent narrative review where it's used to argue that vitamin D should be part of the treatment of COVID-19 for people with diabetespic.twitter.com/khjKOp1QSN
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Also it appears that one of the authors of the investigative paper is on twitter
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