I went to the website linked by this 'paper' and... unprofessional is a word for it, but hey, some academic places just aren't good at web stuff. https://clinmedjournals.org/Journal-of-Infectious-Diseases-and-Epidemiology.php …
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The acknowledgments are bizarre; "To Terri Su, MD, wife and clinical partner of Robert Rowen for her steadfast support of ozone therapy practices and editing this manuscript." Hmm. *suspicion intensifies*
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Classic sCAM promoter stuff: "Ozone's challenge is that it does not bring profit to justify private research to advance it towards regulatory agency "approval", a process requiring tens of millions of USD. Hence, few in the medical field are aware of it"
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"...and fewer will consider "unapproved" therapy even to save lives" 'They won't research our thing because they can't make $$ off it!' is almost never true. The thing isn't researched more than it already has been because it's demonstrable nonsense that won't help anyone.
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One of the two authors is a 'foot doctor' and "Ozone therapy" salesman in New York: https://www.ozonedoctor.net/
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On searching for the both of them, they have previously (apparently) circulated this claim for an EBOLA treatment (christ!!) - using, guess what? Also "ozone therapy".
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This guy is pushing both his 'ebola treatment' and 'coronavirus therapy' using ozone still as of last month - or whoever runs this sockpuppet is anyway. These people could easily be fictitious. https://www.facebook.com/DrRobertJRowen/posts/1226645214200144 …
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He's even got the middle name J., standing for Jay, like Homer Simpson. Though cruel/think-they're-funny parents could have done this.
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Trying to find more about the 'editor in chief' of the journal itself, Abubaker ME Sidahmed, so far nothing matching the university listed on the website, plus similar open-access journals (virology and HIV) that he's supposedly run? https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Abubaker-M-E-Sidahmed/14337335 … Seems like few papers.
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I mean it's a nice sounding bio. Can I find him on an actual university staff list... http://www.scholarena.com/eb/212/Abubaker-M-E-Sidahmed-/ …
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His LinkedIn page is broken. Here he is again, on that other made-up-looking journal :https://clinmedjournals.org/editorial_board.php?jid=ijva …
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He seems to have been in a team at Calgary that got a research grant in 2016, and he was a *clinical fellow* there in 2014. No way is he editor of multiple journals now.pic.twitter.com/CcIjMvMIGC
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Now the person who shared this is extremely offended that I've questioned it of course.
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After dirty-deleting their comment of this paper, a Snopes piece posted to clarify the other 'advice' they shared was misattributed, AND assuming 'Dr Baker' is a man: "This post has to be right and credible. It can’t be just another garbled facebook post" Who are they asking?
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"John Hopkins got it from clinmed" ClinMed International Library is a predatory journal org. https://clinicallibrarian.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers/ …
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Now she's deleted all her comments *again* so two of us are talking to ourselves. How do these people manage day to day? Sigh. What a waste of time.
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