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http://www.healthfreedoms.org/editor-in-chief-of-worlds-best-known-medical-journal-half-of-all-the-literature-is-false/
In the past few years more professionals have come forward to share a
truth that, for many people, proves difficult to swallow. One such
authority is Dr. Richard Horton, the current editor-in-chief of the
Lancet – considered to be one of the most well respected peer-reviewed
medical journals in the world.
Dr. Horton recently published a
statement declaring that a lot of published research is in fact
unreliable at best, if not completely false.
“The
case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific
literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies
with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and
flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing
fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn
towards darkness.” (source)This
is quite distrubing, given the fact that all of these studies (which
are industry sponsored) are used to develop drugs/vaccines to supposedly
help people, train medical staff, educate medical students and more.
It’s
common for many to dismiss a lot of great work by experts and
researchers at various institutions around the globe which
isn’t “peer-reviewed” and doesn’t appear in a “credible” medical
journal, but as we can see, “peer-reviewed” doesn’t really mean much
anymore. “Credible” medical journals continue to lose their tenability
in the eyes of experts and employees of the journals themselves, like
Dr. Horton.
He also went on to call himself out in a sense,
stating that journal editors aid and abet the worst behaviours, that the
amount of bad research is alarming, that data is sculpted to fit a
preferred theory. He goes on to observe that important confirmations are
often rejected and little is done to correct bad practices. What’s
worse, much of what goes on could even be considered borderline
misconduct.
Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and longtime Editor in
Chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ), which is considered to
another one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals in
the world, makes her view of the subject quite plain:
“It
is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research
that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or
authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion,
which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor
of the New England Journal of Medicine” (source)
I
apologize if you have seen it before in my articles, but it is quite
the statement, and it comes from someone who also held a position
similiar to Dr. Horton.
There is much more than anecdotal evidence
to support these claims, however, including documents obtained by
Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD, from the Neural Dynamics Research Group in the
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of
British Columbia, which reveal that vaccine manufacturers,
pharmaceutical companies, and health authorities have known about
multiple dangers associated with vaccines but chose to withhold them
from the public. This is scientific fraud, and their complicity suggests
that this practice continues to this day. (source)
This
is just one of many examples, and alludes to one point Dr. Horton is
referring to, the ommision of data. For the sake of time, I encourage
you to do your own research on this subject. I just wanted to provide
some food for thought about something that is not often considered when
it comes to medical research, and the resulting products and theories
which are then sold to us based on that research.
It’s truly a
remarkable time to be alive. Over the course of human history, our
planet has experienced multiple paradigm shifting realizations, all of
which were met with harsh resistence at the time of their revelation.
One great example is when we realized the Earth was not flat. Today, we
are seeing these kinds of revelatory shifts in thinking happen in
multiple spheres, all at one time. It can seem overwhelming for those
who are paying attention, especially given the fact that a lot of these
ideas go against current belief systems. There will always be
resistance to new information which does not fit into the current
framework, regardless of how reasonable (or factual) that information
might be.
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