Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), the lead Republican on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, is trying to find out who communicated with whom behind the scenes regarding now-discredited studies. They include one that tried to discredit the use of hydroxyhloroquine for Covid-19. It was ultimately retracted as a blatant fraud.
Johnson has sent letters to The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine requesting records regarding last year’s retraction of studies on Covid-19.
A retracted Lancet study, in particular, reportedly relied on problematic data to conclude that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine did not help people with Covid-19.
Although this fraudulent study was ultimately retracted, it is concerning and shameful that, in the midst of a pandemic, The Lancet published such a misleading paper on a potential early treatment for Covid-19.
Sen. Ron Johnson, (R-Wisconsin)
Both letters are posted below and can be found here and here.
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December 14, 2021
Dr. Richard Horton
Editor-in-Chief
The Lancet
230 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10169
Dear Dr. Horton:
I write to request information regarding the publication and subsequent retraction of a study published in The Lancet titled, “Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis” (“the study” or “the paper”). This study, which first appeared in The Lancet on May 22, 2020, reportedly found that, “treating people who have [COVID-19] with chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine did not help and might have increased the risk of abnormal heart rhythms and death.”
According to reports, following the study’s publication, scientists and clinicians raised concerns about the veracity of the data used in the study. Specifically, experts questioned, “the astonishing number of patients involved and details about their demographics and prescribed dosing[.]” The Surgisphere Corporation (“Surgisphere”), a Chicago-based company, supplied the dataset that served as the basis for the study. Surgisphere’s owner and founder, Dr. Sapan Desai, was one of the authors of the study.
On June 3, 2020, The Lancet issued an “expression of concern” regarding the study after “serious scientific questions” were brought to the editors’ attention. On June 5, 2020, the authors of the study, not including Dr. Desai, published a statement retracting their paper. Shortly after the retraction, you reportedly called the study a “fabrication” and “a monumental fraud.”
Although this fraudulent study was ultimately retracted, it is concerning and shameful that, in the midst of a pandemic, The Lancet published such a misleading paper on a potential early treatment for COVID-19. In order to better understand The Lancet’s actions regarding this study, I request the following:
- The preservation of all records referring or relating to the study titled, “Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis.”
- All documents and communications between and among employees or representatives of The Lancet and U.S. government employees referring or relating to the study.
- All documents and communications between and among The Lancet employees or representatives who reviewed this study, including any comments, ratings, findings and recommendations of the peer reviewers.
- All documents and communications between and among employees or representatives of The Lancet and individuals or organizations encouraging The Lancet to publish the study.
- All documents and communications between and among employees or representatives of The Lancet and the study’s authors, or their representatives.
- All documents and communications between and among employees or representatives of The Lancet and employees or representatives of Surgisphere.
Please provide this information as soon as possible but no later than January 4, 2022.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Ron Johnson
Ranking Member
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
December 14, 2021
Dr. Eric Rubin
Editor-in-Chief
New England Journal of Medicine
860 Winter Street
Waltham, MA 02451
Dear Dr. Rubin:
I write to request information regarding the publication and subsequent retraction of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (“NEJM”) titled, “Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19” (“the study” or “the paper”). This study, which first appeared in NEJM on May 1, 2020, reportedly found that, “taking certain blood pressure drugs, including angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, didn’t appear to increase the risk of death among COVID-19 patients, as some researchers had suggested.”
On June 2, 2020, you issued an “expression of concern” regarding the study based on “substantive concerns [that had] been raised about the quality of the information in [the study’s] database.” The company that had provided the database in question was the Surgisphere Corporation (“Surgisphere”), a Chicago-based company, whose owner and founder, Dr. Sapan Desai, coauthored the study.
On June 4, 2020, the authors of the study, including Dr. Desai, published a statement retracting their paper. Shortly after the retraction, you reportedly stated, “[w]e shouldn’t have published this.” Although this questionable study was ultimately retracted, it is concerning and shameful that, in the midst of a pandemic, NEJM published a paper on COVID-19 based on problematic data. In order to better understand NEJM’s actions regarding this study, I request the following:
- The preservation of all records referring or relating to the study titled, “Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19.”
- All documents and communications between and among employees or representatives of NEJM and U.S. government employees referring or relating to the study.
- All documents and communications between and among NEJM employees or representatives who reviewed this study, including any comments, ratings, findings and recommendations of the peer reviewers.
- All documents and communications between and among employees or representatives of NEJM and individuals or organizations encouraging NEJM to publish the study.
- All documents and communications between and among employees or representatives of NEJM and the study’s authors, or their representatives.
- All documents and communications between and among employees or representatives of NEJM and employees or representatives of Surgisphere.
Please provide this information as soon as possible but no later than January 4, 2022. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Ron Johnson
Ranking Member
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
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The fraudulent Lancet study was submitted by a shell entity. Just getting around to this now?
All the retracted studies show is that Lancet was part of the Big Pharma conspiracy to sell their dangerous gene therapies, that they called “vaccines,” as the ONLY safe and effective treatment for Covid-19. They aren’t safe, they aren’t effective, and they aren’t a treatment for Covid-19. HCQ, Ivermectin and other protocols, on the other hand, ARE effective–but not profitable to Big Pharma.. This shows they either wanted people to die from Covid-19, or they didn’t care if people died so long as Big Pharma got their BILLIONS of dollars from their Clot Shot mandates.
Then there is the related issue of the suppression of data from the Covid-19 vaccine trials, information you would assume would be a matter of public record.
May God bless & protect Ron Johnson and Sharyl Attkisson..& all who are revealing truth.
Thank you, Sharyl. As a former professional news person & daughter of a now deceased physician, I’m horrified by the lack of integrity both in scientific research & in journalism (in the legacy news corps).
Thank God we still have Indy journalists (for now).