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Column: How a retracted research paper contaminated global coronavirus research – Los Angles Times (Michael Hiltzik | June 2020)

Posted by saviorteam in Human Research Ethics, Research Integrity on July 7, 2020
Keywords: Big data, Biomedical, Breaches, Data management, Institutional responsibilities, International, Journal, Medical research, Merit and integrity, News, Publication ethics, Research integrity, Research results, Researcher responsibilities
The word Data written on a card placed at the centre of a shooting target.

Call it the retraction that shook the coronavirus world.

We’ve known this sordid truth for years: Cheats and charlatans lurk amongst us.  With the two high profile retractions, it has become public knowledge and it is the reputation of science that has been tarnished.

On June 4, the Lancet, the British medical journal that is one of the most prestigious scientific publications in the world, withdrew a paper that had been one of the most consequential in the novel field of coronavirus studies.
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The peer-reviewed paper, which the Lancet had published on May 22, said that treating COVID-19 with the antimalarial drugs chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine raised the heart-related death risk for COVID-19 patients in the hospital without showing any benefit.

Yes, this is a wake-up call. But we’ve had the wake-up call for years.
IVAN ORANSKY, RETRACTION WATCH

The lead author of the paper, which employed a worldwide database of 96,000 patients from nearly 700 hospitals on six continents, was a highly regarded Harvard cardiac surgeon.

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