{"id":77606,"date":"2026-08-19T06:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/medical-researcher-who-touted-covid-cure-and-was-hailed-by-dr-oz-under-fire-over-ethics\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:56:15","slug":"medical-researcher-who-touted-covid-cure-and-was-hailed-by-dr-oz-under-fire-over-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/medical-researcher-who-touted-covid-cure-and-was-hailed-by-dr-oz-under-fire-over-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical researcher who touted Covid \u2018cure\u2019 and was hailed by Dr Oz under fire over ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New findings further call into question scientific judgment of current health leaders in the Trump administration<\/p>\n<p>A French researcher whose work was praised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and Dr Mehmet Oz during the Covid-19 pandemic published hundreds of papers with \u201csubstantial\u201d ethical and legal concerns, according to a new analysis.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists found concerns in 853 articles published by the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e Infection, or the IHU, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/09\/french-research-centre-behind-controversial-covid-paper-found-to-have-used-questionable-ethics-processes\">hundreds more than previously flagged<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/unearthed-university-investigation-found-research-ethics-failings-french-medical\">past investigations<\/a> into work at the large research hospital. Of those, institute founder Didier Raoult was listed as co-author on 758 of them, according to one of the researchers behind the new analysis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/aug\/19\/french-medical-researcher-covid-ethics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New findings further call into question scientific judgment of current health leaders in the Trump administration A French researcher whose work was praised by Donald Trump and Dr Mehmet Oz during the Covid-19 pandemic published hundreds of papers with \u201csubstantial\u201d ethical and legal concerns, according to a new analysis. An international team of scientists found &#8230; <a title=\"Medical researcher who touted Covid \u2018cure\u2019 and was hailed by Dr Oz under fire over ethics\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/medical-researcher-who-touted-covid-cure-and-was-hailed-by-dr-oz-under-fire-over-ethics\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Medical researcher who touted Covid \u2018cure\u2019 and was hailed by Dr Oz under fire over ethics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}