It’s not just medical journals, actually, but the decline in medical journals matters perhaps more than that of any other kind of scientific publication.
Earlier today, I wrote about the retraction of an enormously influential paper on Alzheimer’s disease in the journal Nature. That paper revolutionized research into how Alzheimer’s might be cured, and the fact that it was fraudulent means that 15 years of research and billions of dollars have probably been wasted.
Perhaps in that case, Nature might be forgiven because it was a case of fraud. But how does one explain the publication of this article in The Lancet?
this is actually just embarrassing. how does someone write this in a ‘medical’ journal and not be embarrassed. how does the journal publish it. i don’t understand it.
— sonch (@soncharm) June 7, 2024
It is a screed, pure and simple—an expression of rage against…
