Medical journal editor of twenty years says scientific journals can no longer be trusted

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[–]ActuallyNot 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

To clarify, she says that medical journals can no longer be trusted. Due to funding bias, publication bias, and conflicts of interest.

"The problems I’ve discussed are not limited to psychiatry, although they reach their most florid form there. Similar conflicts of interest and biases exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs or devices. 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."

And she said it 14 years ago.

[–]YoMamma 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep - I'm really sick of this assumption by spreaders of misinformation that we should all believe images with text rather than the original sources.

Corporate-funded bias and conflicts of interest have always been a partial problem in medical research, which is why the scientific community has opportunies to respond to those biases and to request corrections to or the removal of misleading publications. Hence, she's not mentioned anything that's shocking to anyone in medical sceience. There are numerous retractions in medical journals.

More information about her and her specific criticisms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Angell

And specific corrections to medical publications:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2652632