Frontiers Removes Controversial Ivermectin Paper Pre-Publication

A review article containing contested claims about the tropical medicine drug as a COVID-19 treatment was listed as “provisionally accepted” on the journal’s website before being removed this week.

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Update (February 11): The American Journal of Therapeutics has issued expressions of concern on two published papers summarizing ivermectin’s use in COVID-19 patients. One of those papers was a reworked version of the manuscript by Pierre Kory and colleagues that had previously been rejected by Frontiers after editors determined that it contained “a series of strong, unsupported claims.” The other paper was authored by a separate research group. Both expressions of concern cite “allegations of inaccurate data collection and/or reporting” in at least one of the studies included in the reviews. The journal’s editor-in-chief, Peter Manu, tells Retraction Watch that any further action will hinge on the results of independent investigations at other institutions into those allegations.

The editors of Frontiers in Pharmacology have taken down an article about the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin in COVID-19 patients. The paper, which was written by members ...

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