Trust the Science?

This is sourced to an article out of Georgetown University I think. Would be interesting to hear the other side of the argument if there is one.

Peer reviewers are anonymous. This is a non-story unless they’re suggesting that randomly selected and volunteer reviewers who receive a anonymised manuscript are paging through it, then phoning astrazenica to negotiate a bung. If you want a problem to fixate on in academia, look up the replication crisis. Huge numbers of studies can’t have their results verified. 

2013: Doubts about Johns Hopkins research have gone unanswered, scientist says

**”You have a lot of people who want to do the right thing, but they get in a position where their job is on the line or their funding will get cut, and they need to get a paper published,” said Ferric C. Fang,** one of the authors of the analysis and a medical professor at the University of Washington. **”Then they have this tempting thought: If only the data points would line up . . . ”**

“Last year, research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that the percentage of **scientific articles retracted because of fraud had increased tenfold since 1975.**

The same analysis reviewed more than 2,000 retracted biomedical papers and found that **67 percent of the retractions were attributable to misconduct, mainly fraud or suspected fraud.”**

“But he said the increase is caused at least in part by the **growing competition for publication and for NIH grant money.”**

“Johns Hopkins University typically receives more than $600 million a year from NIH”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/doubts-about-johns-hopkins-research-have-gone-unanswered-scientist-says/2013/03/11/52822cba-7c84-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html

**”Dr. Richard Horton** is the editor in chief of the world’s leading medical journal, The Lancet. Writing in his own journal he states that **medical science has “taken a turn towards darkness.”**
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2960696-1.pdf

**“The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry,** not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research.” -Arnold Seymour Relman, former Harvard professor of medicine and former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Medical Journal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1126053/#ref15

**Merck skewed tests of the mumps vaccine by adding animal antibodies to blood samples**
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-vaccine-idUSL1N0YQ0W820150604

**”Merck Created Hit List to “Destroy,” “Neutralize” or “Discredit” Dissenting Doctors”**
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/merck-created-hit-list-to-destroy-neutralize-or-discredit-dissenting-doctors/

**”New Merck Allegations: A Fake Journal; Ghostwritten Studies; Vioxx Pop Songs; PR Execs Harass Reporters”**
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-merck-allegations-a-fake-journal-ghostwritten-studies-vioxx-pop-songs-pr-execs-harass-reporters/

**“Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”
-John P.A. Ioannidis**
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

**Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals**
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014107680609900414

**Most scientists ‘can’t replicate studies by their peers’**
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778

**A Massive Hoax Involving 20 Fake Culture Studies Papers Just Exploded in Academia**
https://www.sciencealert.com/cultural-studies-sokal-squared-hoax-20-fake-papers