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The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
29 Sep 2024 7:11 pm
Here is a post that I wish every single person at Lancet, the CDC and every other American was required to read.Cannonpointer » 29 Sep 2024, 5:52 pm » wrote: ↑ In 2020 the Lancet - the gold standard of Peer Review - published an editorial insisting that anyone who even suggested covid leaked from a lab was an anti-science conspiracy theorist. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanc ... 9/fulltext
In 2022, the Lancet could no longer deny the conflict of interest in the position it took, as one of the writers had been working at the wuhan institute at the time of the lab leak. The Lancet apologized and published an editorial at metaphorical gunpoint stating that certainly the lab leak theory was an avenue that rightly merited scrutiny - the Lancet's previous intellectual thuggery notwithstanding. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/ne ... eak-letter
The Lancet remains the most credible and esteemed journal in the western world. It simply no longer has the same respect - from anyone. It no longer has the same cachet, the same shiny inviolability, the same "last and final word" stature. Quoting the Lancet is no longer and nevermore akin to playing a trump card. The Lancet was the last line of defense for pure science - and while it still deals in real science, it is now known to traffic as well in pseudo-science and political claptrap and propaganda. The name it once had was as easy to throw away as it will be impossible to reestablish.
