If there is one thing COVID has definitely done

it is significantly degrade the quality of medical publications.

We now joke that CVs should have 2 separate sections, non-COVID and COVID publications. Because the bar to publish a COVID study is considerably lower than the bar to publish a non-COVID study in the same journal.

Some of it is the speed with which these journals are trying to get information out there - the review process is hurried and some corners are cut. I get that. But major journals have published some pretty bad science in the last 3 months.