Early research on COVID-19 is littered with poor methods and low-quality results — a problem for science that has exacerbated but not caused the pandemic
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers flooded journals with studies on the then-novel coronavirus. Many publications have streamlined the peer review process for COVID-19 papers, while acceptance rates remained relatively high. The assumption was that policymakers and the public would be able to identify valid and useful research from a very large amount of rapidly … Read more