[brudgers]

Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit international broadcasting agency of the United States government[2] that broadcasts and publishes online news, information, and commentary to listeners in East Asia while "advancing the goals of U.S. foreign policy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia

The source cited is Radio Free Asia not the report itself. Radio Free Asia does not link to any additional sources.

That is not to say that the story is inaccurate, but rather that the claims are not well substantiated and that the source is not apolitical.

[eveningcoffee]

This is good catch, but considering the history of such programs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...), it is that they publish rather information that has been suspended by local governments than something that has been made up.

Of course you should be cautious with what they publish, but this applies to every published information.

[brudgers]

From the RFA story:

data gathered during clinical trials were incomplete, failed to meet analysis requirements or were untraceable, the paper cited a source in the agency as saying.

Outside of China, clinical data is often not shared, suppressed when it does not support the claims, and p-value hacking is used to justify 'off-label' use. This is not usually spun as fabricated, and in commercial drug development my intuition is that 80% of proposed drugs having at least one of these features would be a plausible hypothesis