Some surprise that @NEJM and @TheLancet both duped into publishing highly dubious hydroxychloroquine papers, but should we be surprised? .. (continued) theguardian.com/world/2020/jun…
Probably not, both @TheLancet and @NEJM like high profile and apparently breakthrough studies. Both published fraudulent studies from the same Norwegian group on head and neck cancer thelancet.com/action/showPdf…
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Walking hand in hand @TheLancet & @NEJM published highly dubious papers on the Mediterranean diet, hey, everyone loves papers saying eating a Mediterranean diet makes you live forever! thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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Have a COI with respect to this study – the author issued a cease and desist order for me to stop stating the study was likely fraudulent or be sued for 100 million rupees. Story of this episode here ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
At least @TheLancet finally issued such a note. @NEJM shamefully allowed their RCT (in which many patients had been assigned treatment without randomization) to be withdrawn and republished with the application of additional statistical analysis nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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