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(US) The pandemic is rewriting the rules of science. But at what cost? – The Washington Post (Frances Stead Sellers | October 2020)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Human Research Ethics, Research Integrity on October 28, 2020
Keywords: Clinical trial, International, Medical research, Merit and integrity, Protection for participants
Clinician wearing sits bowed by anguish

Soon after the novel coronavirus began circulating on the West Coast, a team of researchers began an urgent quest to find out how the pathogen might affect pregnant women, beginning their work before they had figured out how to pay for it. Concerned that it might take months to go through the grant-application process, with no guarantee of success, the team at the University of California at San Francisco turned to philanthropy and crowdfunding.

Frances Stead Sellers writes about how the pandemic has upended, or accelerated changes, to the funding of research, peer review and the distribution of results.  Sometimes the changes have felt apt for the times, but often the reckless pace has been disconcerting.

Stephanie Gaw, one of the co-principal investigators, said she was astonished by the response.

“Within a week, we had raised $25,000,” she said. “In a month, $70,000.”

The pandemic has upended norms of the scientific process, from the way studies are funded through the publication of findings. Researchers have been presenting their results online or sending them directly to media outlets rather than awaiting publication in prestigious academic journals. And the stodgy process of peer review has evolved into forthright — and sometimes acrimonious — assessments in the unbridled atmosphere of the Internet.

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Related Reading

(Russia) Leading Scientists Question ‘Highly Improbable’ Russian Vaccine Results Published in Lancet – The Moscow Times (Pjotr Sauer and Jake Cordell | September 2020)

(US) Study of Pepcid as virus remedy stalls after $21M – Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Richard Lardner and Jason Dearen | July 2020)

Assuring research integrity during a pandemic – BMJopinion (Gowri Gopalakrishna, et al | June 2020)

(France) French hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 study withdrawn – Retraction Watch (Ivan Oransky | May 2020)

(France) He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19 – New York Times Magazine (Scott Sayare | May 2020)

(COVID-19) Underpromise, overdeliver – Science (Editorial – H. Holden Thorp | March 2020)

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