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Interesting. He is an epidemiologist, and it looks like two papers should not have been added to the meta-analysis. He writes more about it here. The Elgazza
by bb88 5y ago
Interesting. He is an epidemiologist, and it looks like two papers should not have been added to the meta-analysis.
He writes more about it here. The Elgazzar paper were cited in 30 other papers.
https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602 https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on...
- MilnerRoute 5y agoThe Los Angeles Times had a Pulitzer-prize winning writer explore one of the recent meta-analyses - who found this key detail: All the members of the research team are associated with a British pro-invermectin organization and the money for the research was raised by a Gofundme campaign headlined "Help us get a life-saving drug approved for COVID-19." https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/column-ivermectin-another-bogus-covid-treatment-becomes-a-darling-of-conspiracy-mongers/ar-AAMr54U?ocid=BingNewsSearch https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/column-ivermectin-a... The Times also points out that Elgazzar's dubious data "was not peer-reviewed before publication, so it probably should never have been incorporated in the meta-analysis at all."
- native_samples 5y agoPeer reviews do not involve reviews of actual collected data, just a review of the paper that draws conclusions from it. I don't know if there's such a thing as peer reviewed data in the medical world. If there is, it can't be a consistent standard, as a lot of studies are published despite appearing to have made up data: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-health-research-is-fraudulent-until-proved-otherwise/ https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...