14/n And let's not forget, pretty much the entire introduction WAS PLAGIARIZED Not good. Not good at all
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24/n How can it be that a study this problematic was used as evidence to treat 1,000s of people since November 2020, and no one noticed? No one cared?
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25/n Anyway, the TL:DR is that the largest study to date of ivermectin for COVID-19, which found a HUGE benefit for the drug, has just been retracted amid very serious concerns about plagiarism and fraud This will echo in the scientific community for years to come
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26/n While it is still certainly possible that ivermectin works for COVID-19, this has made a huge dent in that possibility. I await the large studies that are currently being conducted, because we really have no good evidence to rely on
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Wait a minute... What if the authors *intentionally* put all those methodological issues and sources of bias in their report to distract us from the possibility of fraud?
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Wait...what? A run through plagiarism detection software would have picked up the introduction. You mean this isn't done? How is this not done?
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Reminds me of: “Science is at once the most questioning and . . . sceptical of activities and also the most trusting,” said Arnold Relman, “It is intensely sceptical about the possibility of error, but totally trusting about the possibility of fraud.”https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c7452 …
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I myself was deeply skeptical when it came out, simply because it claimed to find a huge benefit that nobody else could replicate, but I didn't take the time to drill down. Now I have: gross incompetence is the MAXIMALLY CHARITABLE interpretation possible.
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This is what bugs.
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