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I think that what is sort of a sideline in this article is really a more important story. The Lancet and NEJM have completely debased themselves and destroyed c
by hamburgerwah 5y ago
I think that what is sort of a sideline in this article is really a more important story. The Lancet and NEJM have completely debased themselves and destroyed centuries of institutional credibility in their handling of covid related research. I don't know where it goes from here but they have both burned themselves to the ground.
- harringtonjones 5y agoI thought that happened to the Lancet after the original vaccines -> autism paper...
- erentz 5y agoAnd the PACE trial
- yyyk 5y agoThe Lancet does this all the time. To add a few more examples to the sibling comments: The fraudulent HCQ paper*, the absurd Iraq war casualty calculation. In general, assume that whenever there's politics or the opportunity to shock, the Lancet won't be very thorough with its articles. * The conclusion being accidentally right doesn't cover for the fraudulent data.
- nayuki 5y agoAnd the letter dismissing the lab leak theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancet#February_2020_letter_dismissing_lab-leak_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancet#February_2020_lette...