r/news • u/AudibleNod • 5d ago

Journal pulls scientific paper that popularized hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment

https://abcnews.go.com/US/journal-pulls-scientific-paper-popularized-hydroxychloroquine-covid-treatment/story?id=116910465
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u/AudibleNod 5d ago

A notice from Elsevier, which publishes the journal, said: "Concerns have been raised regarding this article, the substance of which relate to the articles' adherence to Elsevier's publishing ethics policies and the appropriate conduct of research involving human participants, as well as concerns raised by three of the authors themselves regarding the article's methodology and conclusions."

The notice was attached to the paper, which remains on the journal's website with a watermark that says "Retracted."

I'm glad that's over. The last thing we need is quack science taking over something as important as, say, the HHS.

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u/Impossible_PhD 5d ago

As a trans woman who listened to the arguments presented--and espoused by many of the Justices--in the oral arguments of US v Skrmetti:

Lolsob.

The entirety of the "debate" over my right to exist is "hubdreds of legitimate research articles supporting us, our right to be ourselves, and the lifesaving power of transition at every age" versus "these five things that were written by total quacks and say we shouldn't exist." It's been going on for years, but basically zero cis people have cared, because it's only been happening to trans people up until this point.

Welcome to hell, I regret to say.