Today's paper that I'm checking is not ivermectin, another treatment for COVID-19, and thus far every single percentage I've looked at in every table is impossible Cited 18 times so far
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This one feel free to have a look yourself:https://www.cureus.com/articles/50511-early-antiandrogen-therapy-with-dutasteride-reduces-viral-shedding-inflammatory-responses-and-time-to-remission-in-males-with-covid-19-a-randomized-double-blind-placebo-controlled-interventional-trial-eat-duta-androcov-trial---biochemical …
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It looks like the authors have mislabeled table 1, but the other tables I can't even explain. These percentages, for example, aren't possible for any values between 40-45 as far as I can tellpic.twitter.com/qbsP3iUHM0
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The whole thing is just...very odd. The p-values are also bizarre - I get a chi-squared p-value of 0.0005, not 0.036, for the last line
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For those wondering what I mean when I say "impossible"https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1428174111834923018?s=20 …
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Worth noting that lots of papers have one or two impossible values - often there is a person missing from one line in a table, that throws off the percentages. It's not ideal, but it's a very simple mistake It becomes worrying when this mistake is repeated a lot
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They also use a different impossible number between the table and the narrativepic.twitter.com/AdF6cWdMVP
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Wow that's pretty wild. Are any of the numbers in this paper actually correct?
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