Problem: In the time of COVID-19 pandemic, the anti-parasite drug ivermectin has attracted much attention as a potential way to treat COVID-19. But shocking revelations of widespread flaws in the data of a preprint study Flawed ivermectin preprint highlights challenges of COVID drug studies. dampens ivermectin's promise - and highlights the challenges of investigating drug efficacy during a pandemic. Assess and discuss the issue of scientific misconduct in this case and propose one solution for the same.