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RE: China did not report the coronavirus to the WHO - BostonCard - 07-05-2020

(07-05-2020, 07:42 AM)Mick Wrote:  Given the pressure to publish in China and the apparent gaming of statistics, I'd be curious to know whether (a) the MDs on this board have confidence in any published paper that emerges from the Chinese medical community and (b) would that extend to pronouncements and information on infectious diseases like COVID-19?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-research-papers-raise-doubts-fueling-global-questions-about-scientific-integrity-11593939600

Problematic science is hardly a uniquely Chinese phenomenon.  Just recently we had a group headed by a Harvard cardiologist publish and retract high profile papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet after questions on the province of their data were raised.  Nor are Chinese papers automatically useless; the first genome of COVID-19 was published quickly by a Chinese team and was very useful.  That’s not to say that paper mills, plagiarism, or fraud are ok.  As was eloquently stated in the article, this behavior “pollutes” the medical literature.

I think one has to approach the medical literature generally with both skepticism and an open mind.  COVID-19 has probably put that on steroids.

BC

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