Over 300 COVID-19 Papers Withdrawn For Not Meeting Standards Of Scientific Soundness

Meh, not surprising at all. Number seems low. With covid, researchers and faculty everywhere could publish tons of papers on just about everything within the context of covid, because it was immediately novel. I suspect there was a rush to publish. My group published 2 papers right away when the pandemic started. You can publish something as low key as how (fill in the blank) patients faired during novel coronavirus outbreak. How did outcomes change, in any disease whatsoever, given missed appointments, closed pharmacies, etc... There is a ton to learn during a once in a lifetime outbreak. So its good to publish. Im quite sure the number of papers submitted was in the 100,000s.

Well, nearly everyone was rushing to contribute to research on COVID and they were trying to get a handle on it as quickly as possible in order to slash the death toll and restore society. It was not too dissimilar from what would happen if we found out a 1 km asteroid was on a collision course with earth. Everyone pitched together and published their preliminary data, so that in some cases it was skewed. But it included a high proportion of the most cited and published authors. This study found hundreds of thousands of publications related to COVID-19 already by August 1, 2021. Plenty of rushed studies with preliminary data should be withdrawn, but that doesn't in the least mean that there wasn't a real virus with a set of mutations out there killing millions.

"We examined the extent to which the scientific workforce in different fields was engaged in publishing COVID-19-related papers. According to Scopus (data cut, 1 August 2021), 210 183 COVID-19-related publications included 720 801 unique authors, of which 360 005 authors had published at least five full papers in their career and 23 520 authors were at the top 2% of their scientific subfield based on a career-long composite citation indicator. The growth of COVID-19 authors was far more rapid and massive compared with cohorts of authors historically publishing on H1N1, Zika, Ebola, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. All 174 scientific subfields had some specialists who had published on COVID-19. In 109 of the 174 subfields of science, at least one in 10 active, influential (top 2% composite citation indicator) authors in the subfield had authored something on COVID-19. Fifty-three hyper-prolific authors had already at least 60 (and up to 227) COVID-19 publications each. Among the 300 authors with the highest composite citation indicator for their COVID-19 publications, most common countries were USA (n = 67), China (n = 52), UK (n = 32) and Italy (n = 18). The rapid and massive involvement of the scientific workforce in COVID-19-related work is unprecedented and creates opportunities and challenges. There is evidence for hyper-prolific productivity."

"Covid was a sham"--so a half-dozen of my fellow employees let themselves die because of a sham. How silly.

Shot, javelin, & hammer…

I'm amazed by those (intelligent?) people I have met who eventually confide that "Covid isn't a real thing, just something made up by the government!"

Source: zerohedge? 😭

Do you know how many articles were not withdrawn because they meet rigorous scientific standards? Maybe 300,000?

Where do you work? An obese senior stroke survivor’s support group in NYC?

The reason I ask is only about 24% of COVID deaths were to people considered working age. Doing the math, that would mean you have roughly 7,500 co-workers unless your co-workers were a couple standard deviations from the mean in terms of risk factors. I only have about thirty people that I would consider co-workers, none of whom died. Sounds like you work in a very unhealthy place / profession. You should consider a career change.

There's no conspiracy here. There's much more bad science then good. That's all

I agree. Just trying to explain to someone that this many studies all coming out this quickly...there might be some duds. Not a big deal.

No, he works at MS and sits in the shares a cubicle with ben'jamin and troll-looper.

I work at a college in the Greater NYC area. These were mostly working professionals. At least one student died, as well.

And most of the deaths were very early in the epidemic--NYC was hit hard before the rest of the country--with people being infected before we knew much about the disease and well before any vaccines were available.

More than 1 Million Americans died in this "sham"

And we need to remain vigilant and prepared for the next time and for ongoing outbreaks. An effective response involves cooperation and concern for the common good. I believe we are capable of better outcomes than we delivered last time.

Covid was a joke

Covid was a bioweapon created by the same folks who gave us the vaxx.

No way r u telling the truth unless your company is repleted with people in their 80s and over with several comorbidities

So, out of 20,000 students and 1,500 faculty (primarily unvaccinated at the time of exposure based upon when COVID ran its way through the subways of New York that the Democratic government encouraged its people to ride) approximately 6 deaths counted as COVID. Likely most were either obese or had pre-existing cardiac issues. Sound about right?