So a group of doctors publish a peer reviewed study, the stuff hits the fan and they run.
The problem is in peer review you did not dig deep down into the actual data so you are trusting the authors are being honest.
bttt
who knows which is the truth. The establishment may be in error and the lone genius who everyone called the kook maybe correct. Not the first time this has happened in history
Politics and science shouldn’t mix. Scientists should be cautious when they enter into any area in which there are political forces at work, pro or con. With government managing heatlhcare, doctors will have to tread lightly, and realize that political expedience trumps public safety.
It wasn't that long ago that peer reviewers were tough to get by and they remained anonymous. The crap that passes for science today would never have gotten by them. Again, the money grab is to blame. Today, everyone knows who is doing the reviewing. There are still some solid journals out there, in a sea of second-rate literature, but the process is a mess.
When I heard that this guy’s entire study was based on examining just 12 children I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. When I heard that at the time of the study he was being paid by a lawyer planning a class action suit against the vaccine maker, I was angry that he had duped so many parents of autistic children.
Was this the guy who turned out to be a flat-out fraud? If so, he ought to be banned from any self-respecting professional organization.
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Dr. Andrew Wakefield was the first to publish peer-reviewed research suggesting
such a connection, even though the study was later widely discredited.
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Peer review...it does go off the rails occassionally.
That is for sure.