Suppression of real data is no good. Publication of a pre-print that appeals to the use of misinformation for the sole purpose of publicity is another thing.

Suppression of real data is no good. Publication of a pre-print that appeals to the use of misinformation for the sole purpose of publicity is another thing. Certainly timing of this could have been better especially in this current covid world where we now use pre-print as an almost equivalent to peer-reviewed. Also thanks OP for the summary!