COVID-19 pandemic leads to flood of ‘useless’ science: A group of concerned scientists has warned against a flood of “useless” science published during the COVID-19 pandemic, which they say is overwhelming reviewers and leaving good research “in an increasingly longer queue”. As one case in point, since April, Piotr Rzymski, a researcher at the department of environmental medicine in the Poznan University of Medical Sciences says he has been invited to review over 60 manuscripts on COVID-19 by a variety of scientific journals. “Some were ridiculous,” he said. “My favourite example is a suggestion to blow very hot air into a patient's lung to eliminate the virus.”