Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2020
The pandemic claims new victims: prestigious medical journals
14 June 2020 - Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken.
One study promised that popular blood-pressure drugs were safe for people infected with the coronavirus. Another paper warned that anti-malaria drugs endorsed by President Trump actually were dangerous to these patients.
The studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet, were retracted shortly after publication, following an outcry from researchers who saw obvious flaws.
