Comments on DSHR's Blog: Stretching the "peer reviewed" brand until it snaps

Dr. Arthur Caplan of the Division of Medical Ethic...

2015-04-06T21:41:35.427-07:00

Dr. Arthur Caplan of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU's Langone Medical Center supports John Michael Greer with a short but pertinent article The Problem of Publication-Pollution Denialism.

Hat tip to Retraction Watch, but their link points to the wrong paper.

John Michael Greer has a must-read post with a bro...

2015-03-20T11:14:58.746-07:00

John Michael Greer has a must-read post with a broader view of the implications of this problem. He writes:

"institutional science only has the authority and prestige it possesses today because enough of those outside the scientific community accept its claim to speak the truth about nature. Not that many years ago, all things considered, scientists didn’t have the authority or the prestige, and no law of nature or of society guarantees that they’ll keep either one indefinitely. Every doctor who would rather medicate than cure, every researcher who treats conflicts of interest as just another detail of business as usual, every scientist who insists in angry tones that nobody without a Ph.D. in this or that discipline is entitled to ask why this week’s pronouncement should be taken any more seriously than the one it just disproved—and let’s not even talk about the increasing, and increasingly public, problem of overt scientific fraud in the pharmaceutical field among others—is hastening the day when modern science is taken no more seriously by the general public than, say, academic philosophy is today."

Its like shooting fish in a barrel. Here's the...

2015-02-16T07:47:31.247-08:00

Its like shooting fish in a barrel. Here's the latest "expose", this time from Harvard's Mark Shrime via Elizabeth Segran at Fast Company.

Thank you for your very thoughtful comments to my ...

2015-01-11T16:15:54.079-08:00

Thank you for your very thoughtful comments to my December 22 Health Care Renewal post. But I don't know that I am much more optimistic than you, particularly in that we share a common concern about the dismal current peer review process.

Warm regards,
Marjorie