Are medical journals increasingly acting as ‘gatekeepers’ to promote ‘established narratives’ but sideline research that challenges the status quo? Many articles containing ‘controversial’ views that initially achieved publication have been promptly retracted. In the past 5 years, the retraction of papers criticizing the covid vaccines or lockdown policies, for example, has gone stratospheric….
Tag: Science
OPEN LETTER OF CONCERN 4 March 2025
Reproduced with kind permission of the author, this open letter to the Chief Veterinary Officer (the Chris Whitty of the chicken world) questions the whole scientific basis for PCR testing of poultry for avian flu.
Peer Review:
Peer review is a system used by scientists and clinicians to decide which primary research or secondary (review/commentary) content is worthy of being published. In theory it is a process of cumulative, collective knowledge that through publications is cascaded from experts to readers. But in practice things are not always what they seem!
