It is really irresponsible and dangerous to post this sort of thing on HN, and dang should be ashamed to leave it up so long. Junk articles like this do nothing but sow public distrust in an extremely trustworthy scientific/medical system.
Good to have a retrospective, in the agile sense, on the HCQ fiasco too.
You should redirect that shame to the authors listed on this page. Why are you so afraid of scientists being corrected here? Scientists are human and get things wrong. Just like a coding bug, bad science needs to be corrected. So I disagree. What's dangerous about pointing out fault with this example?
> 6 In the category of “not retracted but should never have been published,” we’ll offer up this book chapter, which claims that the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic hitched a ride to Earth on a meteorite.