A MAJOR scandal shook the medical community recently, with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and The Lancet – two of the most prestigious medical journals – retracting highly-influential articles on Covid-19 because the global database they were based on turned out to be dubious.
In the first place, scholars wondered how Surgisphere, a company with no track record and just a few staff, could get hold of a dataset involving almost 100,000 patients in six continents.
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