Stanford Medicine Long COVID Study Blows Up Because of Unmasked Staff https://www.thedailybeast.com/stanford-medicine-long-covid-study-blows-up-because-of-unmasked-staff
@morgfair Stanford has an IRB, as do any decent organizations performing human research. They need to be invoked for this breach of ethics and disregard for the impact on the study subjects. https://researchcompliance.stanford.edu/panels/hs/for-researchers/faqs
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It could be argued that it also invalidated the study, in that it introduced variable, uncontrolled exposure willy-nilly to the subjects, rendering subsequent observations meaningless. So unethical *and* just plain bad science.
