“I’m not interested in medical pedigree. I’m interested in medical consensus… in scientific consensus… the individual scientist does not matter.”
And…
“Follow the new emergent truth.”
Neil deGrass Tyson
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet – Offline: What is medicine’s 5 sigma? The Lancet, April, 11, 2015
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exporatory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.”
Dr. Richard Smith, Former Editor, British Medical Journal, Scientific peer reviews are a ‘sacred cow’ ready to be slaughtered, says former editor of BMJ, Independent, April 15, 2015,
“Smith… said there was no evidence that peer review was a good method of detecting errors and claimed that ‘..most of what is published in journals is just plain wrong or nonsense.’”
Marchia Angell, MD, Former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption, The New York Review, Jan 15, 2009
“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 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.”