Medical journals and scientific fraud
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A picture taken on November 20, 2017 shows logos of British peer-reviewed general medical journal The Lancet displayed on computers' screens.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 min
In early June 2020, the very serious British scientific journal The Lancet issued a warning against the use of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of Covid-19.
This warning has led the WHO to temporarily suspend a clinical trial, and France to end the use of this molecule against Covid-19.
Two days later, the journal retracted and announced the withdrawal of this study.
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Conflicts of interest, fake scientific journals flourishing on the internet, doctors who cheat on their curriculum vitae ...
What are these journals for?
How is their content checked?
How to recognize scientific fraud?
Do these publications carry too much weight today or do they remain essential?
Dr Hervé Maisonneuve,
Public health doctor, scientific editor, leads the blog
Medical and Scientific Writing
and integrity referent of the Faculty of Medicine Paris 7.
Bruno Toussaint,
Editorial Director of the magazine “Prescrire”
Pr Stéphane Gaudry
, professor of intensive care intensive care at the
Avicenne hospital in Bobigny
in the Paris region
At the end of the program, we talk about the OXFAM report indicating that rich countries have already reserved half of future doses of vaccines, which will make it difficult to supply part of the world's population.
We talk about it with
Robin Guittard
, spokesperson for
Oxfam France.
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