>What does this have to do with Dexamethasone? - Shared personnel are hot on the heels of a deeply dubious result and attempted damage control that has involve

>What does this have to do with Dexamethasone? - Shared personnel are hot on the heels of a deeply dubious result and attempted damage control that has involved an outlandish claim of misrepresentation in an interview. - This has all the right smells so far to expect further questionable research practices. - A press release was prioritized over a preprint, even though the authors absolutely know that readily-available drugs will be taken up as primary treatment methods as soon as this news meme spreads. They have given the research community zero time to double-check. - Wildly sensationalist claims made to the press. >They might have made that mistake. This wasn't a simple mistake. Look at ice9's exploration on twitter (see [2]). The whole thing's quite damning.