Thread by @TeamRealityCT

@DrJBhattacharya This bears repeating…daily: The past editor of NEJM speaking out on corruption in medicine - this was written back in 2011/12:

“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…

@DrJBhattacharya 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.” #StopCollegeMandates 🆘

participatorymedicine.org/epatients/2012…

@DrJBhattacharya As does this: “Stephen Lock, my predecessor as editor of The BMJ, became worried about research fraud in the 1980s, but people thought his concerns eccentric. Research authorities insisted that fraud was rare, didn’t matter because science was self-correcting, and that no…

@DrJBhattacharya …patients had suffered because of scientific fraud. All those reasons for not taking research fraud seriously have proved to be false, and, 40 years on from Lock’s concerns, we are realising that the problem is huge, the system encourages fraud, and we have no adequate way…

@DrJBhattacharya to respond. It may be time to move from assuming that research has been honestly conducted & reported to assuming it to be untrustworthy until there is some evidence to the contrary. Richard Smith, BMJ Editor until 2004.”

blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05… #StopCollegeMandates 🆘

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