2024-12-17 12:24:00
It had continued to fuel controversy. Four years after its publication, the founding study of the IHU of Marseille on the use of hydroxychloroquine against Covid 19, signed by Professor Didier Raoult and seventeen of his colleagues, has been officially invalidated. The publisher of the magazine that published it in March 2020 announced this on Tuesday.
“Concerns have been raised” related to compliance with the “ethics of publication”, explained Elsevier, publisher of the scientific journal “International journal of antimicrobial agents”, in a long note justifying this retraction.
“Finally!”, savors Mathieu Molimard
The publisher cites other concerns about “the appropriate conduct of research involving human participants, as well as concerns raised by three authors regarding the methodology and conclusions.”
“Finally! Now we will have to learn the lesson and measure the consequences of this scientific and ethical misconduct,” said Professor Mathieu Molimard on the BlueSky social network. The director of the department of the University Hospital of Bordeaux is the spearhead of the mobilization against Didier Raoult’s publications.
The former head of the IHU of Marseille was sentenced in October to a two-year ban from the profession by the national disciplinary chamber of the medical association. This considering that he “did not use caution and promoted an insufficiently proven treatment”. Although he is retired, Didier Raoult has appealed this sanction.
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