Now FULLY retracted by The Lancet:
What’s the point of this publication if they’re not going to bother with peer review?
“Whats the point of this publication if theyre not going to bother with peer review?”
As I have pointed out before, these days peer review is mostly for political correctness, not scientific accuracy or correct methodology. And the political correctness of anti-Trump propaganda is self evident. Numerous hoax papers have made it through the peer review process to publication. As have plenty of junk science papers that were intended to be serious.