When this is all over, I look forward to forensic investigations of fraudulent medical publications which had the effect of advancing or slowing specific political viewpoints.

E.g. one strawman submarine story can be used to drown dozens of legitimate stories. Or one flawed negative study requires 100+ doctors to object before the claims are withdrawn. We need to learn from these unfortunate incidents and improve our systemic defenses.

Fortunately, digital trails provide much data that can be used to build better defenses.

The problem with that study is that it's widely cited and powerful; it is apparently responsible for the majority of all attributed positive effect for ivermectin in meta-analyses. The fact that it's author was fraudulent doesn't mitigate that!