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East of Broken Bow | It happens in some pretty mainstream journals as well, if the 'science' follows the hot narrative of the day. The irony of the whole thing is that pretty much every Vietnam Vet I know said that the 'research' saying that the drug (HCQ I think) that pretty much every US soldier in Vietnam took without incident was baloney, yet no one bothered to double check what these 'researchers' said because it went against the Covid vax talking points. That they said a drug known for decades to be safe was suddenly 'harmful' should have put up red flags, but it didn't at least not initially, one would have thaught that at least the New Englad Journal of Medicine would have researched it better, but apparently they didn't.
https://www.science.org/content/article/two-elite-medical-journals-r...
In the first big research scandal of the COVID-19 era, The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) today retracted two high-profile papers after a company declined to make the underlying data for both available for an independent audit, following questions being raised about the research. The Lancet paper, which claimed an antimalarial drug touted by President Donald Trump for treatment of COVID-19 could cause serious harm without helping patients, had had a global impact, halting trials of one of the drugs by the World Health Organization (WHO) and others.
------farther down in the article, it seems that politics played at least a part in the 'science' of trying to show that HCQ was 'unsafe'. Quote from the same article:
the safety and effectiveness of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, which had already become a political and scientific controversy, in large part because of Trump's embrace of the drug.
------ETA: You are correct, the article was pulled, it did not survive long-term, but it was significant enough that it got some studies on how to help people with Covid halted, which I'm sure didn't help anyone, and possibly could have cost lives.
Edited by HuskerJ 3/30/2025 17:16
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Please believe in science.
