One of the biggest Ivermectin studies out there withdrawn - appears “just totally faked”. This heavily iundermines the already sketchy meta-analysis that IVM evangleists like to pump up too.
Nice work @MelissaLDavey @GidMK
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-supporting-ivermectin-as-covid-treatment-withdrawn-over-ethical-concerns …?
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True - quite scary. But that student is the type of person we desperately need in this gloss-over-it world of today.
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There's a silver lining here though. The gap between him reporting the various concerns to researchsquare and the paper being yeeted was a couple of days. I'm in month 16 of trying to get plos to even do an expression of concern for one paper.
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I sent them a single email and within 24 hours the paper was down. Research Square was very responsive and nice about it. Based on horror stories I’d heard I was expecting them to take far longer - I was very impressed with the speed.
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We know peer review is deeply flawed. Better to be found than not. Good for the student, and the instructor teaching their students how to do it properly.
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Definitely agree! But we as a community need to pay people to do this so it isn't some (brilliant) student finding stuff like this in their spare time, with no real protection from their institution if it all goes badly
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It was such a schmozzle of a study. Almost impossible to correlate data w text when first viewed and a very sketchy methodology
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@jackmlawrence really interrogated it, before passing it on to data scientists who further exposed it. My question is why didn’t the authors who used the study in their meta-analyses see the errors? Don’t they review the studies they include? - Show replies
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Who else but a student has time to trawl thru someone else's raw data, though. "Bad" systematic reviews are not a new thing. Be wary about studies that haven't been thru peer-review, I suppose -- and some that have.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22223190 …
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