Kama ni matusi, you can insult all you want if it makes you feel better. If there are countless other studies, then why would they need to fabricate data? while india is expanding the drugs use
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01619-8 others are busy rectracting their studies
Retracted studies had relied on health-record analyses from a company that declined to share its raw data for an audit.
www.nature.com
Two weeks after a high-profile paper in
The Lancet1 reported that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine might be dangerous to patients with COVID-19, three of its four authors have retracted the work because they were unable to independently verify their data set, a large proprietary collection of electronic health records analysed by Surgisphere, a US company.
On the same day, 4 June, the researchers and other co-authors retracted a paper in the
New England Journal of Medicine (
NEJM)
2, for the same reason. That study, published a month ago, had looked at the impact of certain heart medications on people with COVID-19, and found no safety concerns.
A third study authored by Desai, Mehra and others that used Surgisphere data, which claimed to find a large reduction in COVID-19 mortality when patients were given the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, has disappeared from the social-sciences preprint server SSRN, where it was first posted on 6 April; a second version was posted on 19 April. Mehra told
Nature that he removed the study because he "did not feel it was ready for peer review".