ReviewEnvironmental science and pollution research international2022
Pseudoscience and fraudulent products for COVID-19 management.
Review in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Development of a Conceptual Framework of Health Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review of Reviews.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Pooled it
- Thyroid disorders and COVID-19: a comprehensive review of literature.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Pooled it
- The combined effect of patient classification systems and availability of resources can bias the judgments of treatment effectiveness.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Considering Historical Context, Current Societal Trends, and Implications for Understanding Harm in Youth Mental Health Treatment: A Broader Lens to the Primum Non Nocere Special Issue.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Inhaled non-viral delivery systems for RNA therapeutics.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2025Review
- Ethical challenges in conducting research in low and middle income setting during public health emergencies: a qualitative evidence of a COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of Iran.BMC medical ethics · 2025Article
- Deciphering the Roots of Pharmacists' Critical Thinking About Pseudoscientific Claims: Insights from a Cross-Sectional Survey.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Microbes and us: microbiology literacy in Greece.FEMS microbiology letters · 2024Article
- Black Salve (or escharotics). A picture about an unorthodox medical preparation in oncology.Skin health and disease · 2023Article
- Demographic and psychometric predictors associated with engagement in risk-associated alternative healthcare behaviours.PloS one · 2023Article
- The Early Detection of Fraudulent COVID-19 Products From Twitter Chatter: Data Set and Baseline Approach Using Anomaly Detection.JMIR infodemiology · 2023Article
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- Recent review of COVID-19 management: diagnosis, treatment and vaccination.Pharmacological reports : PR · 2022Review
- The Vaccine World of COVID-19: India's Contribution.Vaccines · 2022Review
- Inhalable Vaccines: Can They Help Control Pandemics?Vaccines · 2022Article
- Fast-track development of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2: The shots that saved the world.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- Nitric Oxide and its Derivatives Containing Nasal Spray and Inhalation Therapy for the Treatment of COVID-19.Current pharmaceutical design · 2022Review
- Determination of Thermal DNA-Stability With Respect to PCR or How to Debunk a Pseudoscientific Claim.Biochemistry and molecular biology education : a bimonthly publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyArticle
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
As of now, the COVID-19 pandemic has become uncontrolled and is spreading widely throughout the world. Additionally, new variants of the mutated viral variants have been found in some countries that are more dangerous than the original strain. Even vaccines cannot produce complete protective immunity against the newer strains of SARS-CoV-2. Due to such a dreadful situation, lots of fear and depression have been created among the public. People are looking for the treatment of the disease at any cost and there is a race in the market to provide treatment and make money, whether it is effective or not! In such a condition, many fraud products, remedies, and myths have come into the market, which is falsely claimed to be effective for the disease and can harm the patients. Hence, FDA has banned such products and remedies. In this review, we have compiled all such fraudulent and pseudosciences identified for COVID-19. Currently, in the pandemic time, health agencies are approving the repurposed medicines based on the small-scale clinical data for emergency uses that become ineffective (most of the cases) after large randomized clinical studies. Proper vigilance strategies need to be defined by the regulatory agencies of the nation and routine awareness programs shall be arranged for educating the people and healthcare workers on routine updates.
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