No Response Means No Data?
Researchers at the beach sun tanning & drinking Piña Coladas
Raw data is commonly looked at to evaluate research. The FDA and other clinical trial Authorities usually look as source documents during audits. So, I got a bee in my Bonnet and I asked the corresponding author for the raw data for the Fan Wu et al. study in the post noted below. I requested any of the patient and lab data, machine serial numbers and use history data, software data and program code, etc., either by email or data depository in English or Chinese and received no response over a few weeks.
I’ve always suspected no study was done, that the paper is a complete fabrication, and that all the papers out of China are novellettes (like the fraudulent cancer genetics company Theranos). It’s convenient that China is closed to outside audit. But hey, RNA is a big molecule to a little proton.
If there was a study done even with twisted data interpretation there would still be some info to send or even an email reply, I suppose. Well I havn’t proven anything here but whether no study was done or whether it was done as they say, no Sars virus has ever been found.
Just another data crumb, but I did hear someplace that these authors are out on a beach sun tanning and drinking Piña Coladas someplace, funded by the BMGF of course.
