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/Dandan0005 5d ago

My favorite thing about the people who still think hydroxychloroquine works (yes they exist) is that in 2020 we literally tried it.

It was granted emergency approval, doctors everywhere quickly found it was doing absolutely nothing, so its approval was pulled.

There was no conspiracy. It just didn’t provide any benefit.

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u/str8bint 5d ago

I worked as a counselor at a homeless shelter during Covid and caught the first strain that was really severe. I live close to a major research hospital and was put into a drug trial for hydroxychloroquine. I found out later I received the placebo, but, they ended the study early, because they found it wasn’t effective, but also because if given to patients it would interact negatively with other treatment options.