Editor In Chief Of World’s 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.
