'Peer reviewed journals can also create gatekeeping problems, excluding important scientific findings. A study of 1,000 papers submitted to medical journals found that journals initially rejected the 14 papers that later became the most frequently cited. Nobel Prize winners...had their ground breaking work stymied after rejection by journal peer reviewers.'
It doesn't take deep thinking to realize that giving gatekeeping responsibility to people in the same field, whose funding and reputation could be damaged by any groundbreaking work, is just plain stupid.
I've come to think of peer review as Dogma Enforcement.
Likewise it doesn't take deep thinking to assume epidemiologists everywhere will circle the wagons to insist and "prove" (employing fraud if necessary) sloppy lab work by their colleagues could not have caused the covid "pandemic," but apparently it's still too deep of thinking for the credulous stenographers of the corporate media, the political classes and just about everyone else with a degree. My blue collar drinking buddies were onto this scam from the beginning.
Covid was a most egregious example. But I've seen it for decades in, for example, nutrition research. It's a fairly widespread problem, even in the hard sciences.
Paul, the depth of corruption is an almighty force. I don’t understand how it’s allowed to continue unless of course, very powerful industries run the show with funding of many segments of society. The wealth and influence appear to be a licence to kill and maim people as long as there’s money to be made, and we unfortunately, are the mere pawns in their game of Monopoly. A case in point was Vioxx made by Merck who dragged out the lawsuit with multiple delays that lasted about 5 years before it was removed from the market but not before many more people were murdered or harmed. Same is going on right now with Merck’s gardasil’s HPV. Doctor’s are still giving it to young people with no knowledge of the harms or lawsuits. A responsible health or regulatory agency should alert prescribing doctors to give informed consent before injecting kids, if they are even allowed to do so. Sadly, doctors still believe journals are the gold standard and haven’t a clue about the incestuous corruption, that’s been my experience when talking to them.
About a year ago I subscribed to the Substack and YouTube channel of a young scientist Joomi Kim who is reporting on this very subject, from the inside. I suspect she has some pretty tense interactions with her colleagues these days.
Thanks Paul - for trying to ‘keep the bastards honest’! (Quote from the late Don Chipp - an Australian politician. The proximal origins paper alone should be enough to send Fauci, Farrer, Collins - and maybe Daszak - to jail.
'Peer reviewed journals can also create gatekeeping problems, excluding important scientific findings. A study of 1,000 papers submitted to medical journals found that journals initially rejected the 14 papers that later became the most frequently cited. Nobel Prize winners...had their ground breaking work stymied after rejection by journal peer reviewers.'
It doesn't take deep thinking to realize that giving gatekeeping responsibility to people in the same field, whose funding and reputation could be damaged by any groundbreaking work, is just plain stupid.
I've come to think of peer review as Dogma Enforcement.
Likewise it doesn't take deep thinking to assume epidemiologists everywhere will circle the wagons to insist and "prove" (employing fraud if necessary) sloppy lab work by their colleagues could not have caused the covid "pandemic," but apparently it's still too deep of thinking for the credulous stenographers of the corporate media, the political classes and just about everyone else with a degree. My blue collar drinking buddies were onto this scam from the beginning.
Covid was a most egregious example. But I've seen it for decades in, for example, nutrition research. It's a fairly widespread problem, even in the hard sciences.
Paul, the depth of corruption is an almighty force. I don’t understand how it’s allowed to continue unless of course, very powerful industries run the show with funding of many segments of society. The wealth and influence appear to be a licence to kill and maim people as long as there’s money to be made, and we unfortunately, are the mere pawns in their game of Monopoly. A case in point was Vioxx made by Merck who dragged out the lawsuit with multiple delays that lasted about 5 years before it was removed from the market but not before many more people were murdered or harmed. Same is going on right now with Merck’s gardasil’s HPV. Doctor’s are still giving it to young people with no knowledge of the harms or lawsuits. A responsible health or regulatory agency should alert prescribing doctors to give informed consent before injecting kids, if they are even allowed to do so. Sadly, doctors still believe journals are the gold standard and haven’t a clue about the incestuous corruption, that’s been my experience when talking to them.
About a year ago I subscribed to the Substack and YouTube channel of a young scientist Joomi Kim who is reporting on this very subject, from the inside. I suspect she has some pretty tense interactions with her colleagues these days.
I highly recommend her Substack.
Thanks Paul - for trying to ‘keep the bastards honest’! (Quote from the late Don Chipp - an Australian politician. The proximal origins paper alone should be enough to send Fauci, Farrer, Collins - and maybe Daszak - to jail.