Nearly five years after publication, and after 4,000 retractions, the paper that sparked the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 has been retracted.
The publisher cites a range of scientific and ethical concerns.
I have some thoughts 1/n
The publisher cites a range of scientific and ethical concerns.
I have some thoughts 1/n
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There were always obvious signs that the research was trash. If nothing else, it was accepted and published in 1 day.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41073-023-00134-4
https://www.igas.gouv.fr/Controle-de-l-IHU-Mediterranee-infection
The good: this study has actually been retracted. Despite the authorship cabal wherein the editors of the journal and the authors were more or less the same group, there was eventually some consequences for this awful research.
Except...
It is hard to estimate precisely the number of people that HCQ treatment killed during COVID-19, but given the scale of the use of the drug it is almost certainly 1,000s at least.