How They Control Medical Research, By Brian Simpson
The editorial by Drs. Raphael Lataster and Peter Parry titled, "Amid Growing Evidence of Conflicts of Interest and Obdurate Groupthink in Medical Journals, Researchers Must Entertain Contrarian Ideas," was just published:
The article takes mainstream medicine to task for something that alternative critics have been saying for almost a century, that its research agendas and narratives are heavily influenced by Big pHARMa, who has the profit motive first … health … well, down the list, if at all. Here is the abstract which makes this clear, and this is radical for a mainstream publication, so you can judge how bad things are:
"Mainstream medicine, like other academic fields, is shaped by prevailing paradigms and the dominant narratives they create. Over the past half-century, these paradigms have increasingly reflected the growing commercial influence of the pharmaceutical industry. Dominant narratives are closely tied to groupthink, to which medical journals are often subject. In addition, more "prestigious" medical journals tend to have further financial conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry. These dynamics limit scientific progress by suppressing awareness of the iatrogenic aspects of industry products and the benefits of alternative non-patentable and unpatentable medical products and therapeutic interventions. Journals need to adopt a more open policy to manuscripts that encompass contrarian perspectives to dominant narratives while still adhering to time-tested scientific values and methods."
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-peer-reviewed-paper-exposes-journal
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