According to The Guardian, the company’s LinkedIn page currently lists only three employees. The CEO, who is listed as an author of the blockbuster Lancet and NJEM studies, reportedly has three malpractice suits and had earlier launched a crowdfunding project to produce a “human augmentation device” that would “help you achieve what you never thought was possible”. He was assisted by a sci-fi fantasy fiction writer, and an adult content model.
This company supposedly consolidated data from 671 hospitals on six continents upon which The Lancet and NEJM articles were based, even though its web presence seemed inadequate to collect the data from reporting institutions.
Evidently there are still real journalists in Australia who found discrepancies in the Australian data. Following up, they found that the hospitals that supposedly supplied Australian data had never communicated with the company. They were also puzzled regarding how the company could collect detailed data in countries that had patient privacy regulations.
Maybe a doctor with the help of a sci-fi author and an adult content model could put together a reliable database of treatments and clinical outcomes of 96,032 COVID-19 patients from 671 hospitals. Maybe, but I sure wouldn’t count on it without a pretty extensive audit.
Using Occam’s Razor, I can’t see how this study could be anything other than scientific fraud. It is astonishing to me that it would be published in a prestigious journal unless the journal’s editorial staff were more interested in politics than in science. BTW, these articles were “peer reviewed”. I imagine that one of the criteria to be a “peer” was a confirmed diagnosis of TDS.
“these articles were “peer reviewed””
I read this on was not.
There was a letter signed by 120 scientists and doctors highlighting numerous flaws in the authors’ data. I’ve read it and if IIRC lack of peer review was mentioned.