Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga

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Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga

Paper on hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn.

Given the amount of discussion of this paper on this forum over the years, I thought it worth noting that it has (finally) been retracted.

This paper should never have been published — or it should have been retracted immediately after its publication – Elisabeth Bik (image-forensics specialist and scientific-integrity consultant)

Original (now retracted) paper:

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Elsevier’s publication ethics policy is ‘make great returns for shareholders’.

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Raoult and his work on HCQ as a treatment for COVID-19 have been the subject of several threads here, so it’s worth noting that the paper which claimed HCQ’s efficacy had been demonstrated in a clinical trial has, after much criticism over the intervening years, finally been retracted as a result of issues with procedure and medical ethics concerns.

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This is the subject of a thread from a few days ago.

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Threads merged.

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oops! - didn’t see it :frowning_face:

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