Early COVID-19 research is riddled with poor methods and low-quality results; a problem for science that the pandemic worsened but did not create
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers filled journals with studies on the then-novel coronavirus. Many publications have streamlined the peer review process for COVID-19 articles while keeping acceptance rates relatively high. The assumption was that policymakers and the public would be able to identify valid and useful research from the vast amount of rapidly disseminating… Read More »