イベルメクチンがコロナに有効だとする論文の生データ開示 100人の患者主張も22行ごとに同じデータの繰り返しが発覚
Is Ivermectin For Covid-19 Based On Fraudulent Research? Part 4
The story of ivermectin for Covid-19 continues to get even more worrisome
Finally, we were able to get the data through several colleagues who emailed the corresponding authors on our behalf, Dr. Eric Osgood and Dr. Andrew Hill. Their emails were answered quickly, and the data sent through without cost.
Issues of money aside, the dataset that was emailed to several people is quite clearly not data from a real randomized trial. Often, uncovering issues in spreadsheets takes quite a bit of effort, but this dataset is just so obviously problematic that seeing the errors is pretty much immediate when you look at the file.
I’ve uploaded the data that I was sent here, and you can have a look. The basic issue is that the entire dataset is composed of a small number of lines that have simply been copy+pasted a many times. This is most obvious when looking at the height and weight columns, but occurs in almost every numeric column of the data.
