See for yourself how research is manipulated and dogma is called science. Get better at validating research and integrity. Here are some basic points to become familiar with:
- A former editor of BMJ: “Stop assuming that research actually happened and is honestly reported.” [Richard Smith, BMJ]
- Publication bias is a common strategy for making fraudulent conclusions. [Dr. John Briffa]
- “Pharma-funded research cherry-picks positive results. Clinical trial data on new drugs is systematically withheld from doctors and patients, bringing into question many of the premises of the pharmaceutical industry—and the medicine we use.” [Scientific American, 2013]
- “Many times, people who arrive at unwelcome results are being asked to change their results for political reasons, or to not publish them lest their funding disappear.” [Dr. Peter C. Gøtzsche MD]
- “As someone with a master’s degree in Epidemiology, I can tell you this: data can be manipulated—intentionally or unintentionally—in subtle and powerful ways. With the right filters, exclusions, statistical models, and assumptions, it’s entirely possible to either exaggerate or erase an effect.” [Dr. Gator]
- Medical research is corrupted at its core. “It isn’t just an individual study here and there that’s flawed… the very framework of medical investigation may be off-kilter.” [Newsweek, 2011]
- “I’ve witnessed the decline of medical journals firsthand. Once forums for open debate and intellectual rigour, they’ve morphed into gatekeepers, more concerned with preserving a narrow orthodoxy than pursuing truth.” [Maryanne Demasi PhD]
- Independent journalists reveal the “ethical collapse” of the peer review process. [Yaakov Ophir and Yaffa-Shir-Raz]See also: Amid Growing Evidence of Conflicts of Interest and Obdurate Groupthink in Medical Journals, Researchers Must Entertain Contrarian IdeasSee also: Are medical journals dead? Former editor of The BMJ says, “It’s interesting to me in a way that journals are still alive, because I think there are a lot of reasons why they should be dead.”
- “Any time you incentivize something, you’re creating a bias.” [Dr. Lynn Fynn]
- “Big Pharma paid over $1 billion to influence medical research from 2020-2022 in BMJ, JAMA, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine. 59% of journal reviewers received pharmaceutical industry payments.” [Jon Fleetwood and JAMA]
- Specific examples of flawed and corrupted research are provided below. For example, as described in The Epoch Times article, Gross Misconduct: The Nail in the Coffin for Antidepressants, the claim that antidepressants work for nearly 7 in 10 patients is clearly based on scientific misconduct and fraud. [Dr. Joseph Mercola]
- “There is a difference between Science and Fraud. Learn it and support Science.” [James Lyons-Weiler PhD]
- Revealing corruption is not intended to imply that we should reject data and research, which are key forms of evidence, but rather that we must actively validate the integrity of research we consult. Effective strategies provided here.
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