COVID-19 Studies Retracted due to Bad Data

Listen to hosts Samantha Spiers and Cameron Boozarjomehri discuss how two prominent medical journals retracted two popular studies on COVID-19 because the data used was flawed. Discussion includes an overview of the research studies, how the data was flawed, how research studies are published in journals, and if data should be shared with reviewers before studies are published.

Sources: 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/lancet-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-retraction-surgisphere 

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/two-elite-medical-journals-retract-coronavirus-papers-over-data-integrity-questions 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/covid-19-studies-based-on-flawed-surgisphere-data-force-medical-journals-to-review-processes 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/covid-19-surgisphere-who-world-health-organization-hydroxychloroquine  

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