I have not managed to see Hariyanto et al reproduced yet (any help welcome), so I don’t know what effect removing Elgazzar from it would have on that specific meta-study.
For Bryant et al though this is the result with both Elgazzar’s in:
This is the result with both Elgazzar’s out:
RR moved, but the result is fundamentally the same.
Do you think it would change the result for Hariyanto et al?
The obvious difference is that the second does not include Elgazzar, while the first includes Elgazzar, which is bad for the first one because Elgazzar faked its data so incompetently it has been retracted: https://grftr.news/why-was-a-major-study-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19-just-retracted/ https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-supporting-ivermectin-as-covid-treatment-withdrawn-over-ethical-concerns
I have not managed to see Hariyanto et al reproduced yet (any help welcome), so I don’t know what effect removing Elgazzar from it would have on that specific meta-study.
For Bryant et al though this is the result with both Elgazzar’s in:
This is the result with both Elgazzar’s out:
RRmoved, but the result is fundamentally the same.Do you think it would change the result for Hariyanto et al?