This blog post from the BMJ wasn't particularly comforting when published in the middle of covid: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-healt

This blog post from the BMJ wasn't particularly comforting when published in the middle of covid: 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... Richard Smith was the editor of The BMJ until 2004. Competing interest: RS was a cofounder of the Committee on Medical Ethics (COPE), for many years the chair of the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee, and a member of the board of the UK Research Integrity Office.