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The carnage of substandard research during the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for quality
- Correspondence to Professor Katrina A Bramstedt, Bond University Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; txbioethics{at}yahoo.com
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The carnage of substandard research during the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for quality
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- Received May 23, 2020
- Revised August 1, 2020
- Accepted August 12, 2020
- First published October 1, 2020.
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November 27, 2020
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