toggleCaption”>Dr Hervé Maisonneuve is an original figure of scientific publishing. Advisor medical publishing, author of the blog medical Writing and scientific, past both by the pharmaceutical industry and the world of public research, fierce defender of scientific integrity, he is a connoisseur of the workings of this universe often opaque to the general public. He has agreed to give us his vision of the “LancetGate”, and flaws that this case reveals in the production of biomedical knowledge. “I am 70 years old and I am off university which allows me to say things”we said it in the beginning of the interview. Of which act.
Reminder of the facts. On 22 may, a large observational study, conducted by u.s. researchers and published in the prestigious Lancet, warning about the association between hydroxychloroquine and mortality in patients Covid-19 treated at the hospital. The effect is major, and many clinical trials in the world plummet, the time to verify the absence of toxicity. But critics are quick to hear about the reliability of the patient data analyzed, from 671 hospitals in the world and gathered by a startup american.
Read “The “LancetGate”, the narrative media of a scandal in science,”
Under the impetus of Didier Raoult, the case is called, rightly or wrongly, “LancetGate”. On June 5, faced with the impossibility to access the full range of data, three of the authors request the retraction of the article. Investigations on the fourth author, entrepreneur at the origin of the data is collected, are of dubious practices.
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