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The Lancet study involved a company called Surgisphere claiming to have used ML techniques on massive datasets. Medical professionals questioned the findings and the startup founder responsible for the data refused to release it, citing confidentiality agreements, and is generally presumed to have fabricated it to generate publicity for his company. The coauthors requested its retraction. Needless to say, this study does not represent the basis for the medical profession concluding that HCQ does not work; large scale trials did that.

Ironically, it proves the exact opposite of what antivaxxers and alternate cure hypers claim it does: the medical profession was decisive about pulling apart bad studies opposing off label treatments even though it supported their supposition HCQ didn't work and was just hype; just like they've rushed to highlight the indications of likely falsified data in the preprint of this Invermectin study which of course the authors haven't retracted...