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It's now been more than 24 hours since The Lancet retracted the HCQ-COVID study.

Quick questions for network / cable news / newspaper outlets: How many minutes or column inches did you devote to the study when it came out? How many will you devote to the retraction?
As far as I can see, there has been a handful of perfunctory, bloodless mentions of the retraction by major US news providers, none mentioning their previous coverage of it.

Oddly, the press elsewhere (UK, Europe, India) seems to treat it as if it's quite newsworthy.
I dunno, I think there might be some kind of interesting 10 minute between-Polident-ads segment on corrupted research in the highest tiers of medical journal during a global pandemic, and self reflection on how media contributed to its spread.

Haha! I kill myself sometimes.
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If you mean my old world where peer reviewers for the 2 leading medical journals in the world pause to check on the validity of an out-of-nowhere 3rd party data source before hitting "publish," you probably have a point
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