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To: semimojo
No, the plagiarism raised the researchers interest. The other problems with the paper are what got it withdrawn:

”The authors claimed to have done the study only on 18-80 year olds, but at least three patients in the dataset were under 18,” Lawrence said.

“The authors claimed they conducted the study between the 8th of June and 20th of September 2020, however most of the patients who died were admitted into hospital and died before the 8th of June according to the raw data. The data was also terribly formatted, and includes one patient who left hospital on the non-existent date of 31/06/2020.”…

“In their paper, the authors claim that four out of 100 patients died in their standard treatment group for mild and moderate Covid-19,” Lawrence said. “According to the original data, the number was 0, the same as the ivermectin treatment group. In their ivermectin treatment group for severe Covid-19, the authors claim two patients died, but the number in their raw data is four.”…

” The main error is that at least 79 of the patient records are obvious clones of other records,” Brown told the Guardian. “It’s certainly the hardest to explain away as innocent error, especially since the clones aren’t even pure copies. There are signs that they have tried to change one or two fields to make them look more natural.””

Looks like it was pretty much a completely falsified study. Maybe it was written by climate scientists.

104 posted on 07/16/2021 1:38:10 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: ETCM

“ Looks like it was pretty much a completely falsified study. Maybe it was written by climate scientists.”

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It’s pretty scary that people were citing this study and some were basing decisions on it.

Make me wonder what the author’s agenda is.

Does it really pay that much to get clicks at a blog or YouTube video?


109 posted on 07/16/2021 4:19:51 PM PDT by David Chase (DavidHereToHelp)
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