My Presentation: The Fallacies in the Peer Review Process
Check out the PowerPoint Presentation I Put Together Outlining this Information
For those of you who may not know, I am a former participant in the allopathic healthcare system. After having my worldview transformed so drastically in the last few years, I decided to take my career down a different path, and I (once again) decided to go to school to be a holistic practitioner.
I know, I know… institutional indoctrination, blah, blah.
Keep in mind, that I too, have also criticized our learning institutions and I understand that they can come along with some pretty outlandish material. However, unlike 90% of the people in the healthcare profession, I am fortunate enough to think outside of their paradigms and ask the hard-hitting questions or dig deeper into the information and material that I am given. I am able to use better discernment and judgement that most of my peers due to the way that I have experienced healthcare in the last few years, and for that I am super grateful.
With that said, we were told to choose a research topic and given a bunch of guidelines to adhere to, including only utilizing ‘reputable resources’ to back up the claims of whatever topic we have selected. I decided to use their system against them, and I opted to write about the fallacies that are involved in the peer review process and expose the ‘reputable journals’ by using the guidelines and criteria I was given. I have a feeling my instructors were not too fond of my topic, but what can they do? I am still following directions and simultaneously exposing the fraud. Win/win for me!
I hope anyone who decided to watch gets some use from this, and I will attach my accompanying articles here as well. This should be an eye-opener for anyone who still believes that this is the Gold Standard for research and for what is included in publications. For everyone else, it serves as yet another reinforcement of what we already know: that peer review, flawed science, and the lack of integrity that come with them need to be made a thing of the past moving forward.
Additional Reading:
Can We Really Trust the Experts?
Peer review is a process in which scholars in a particular field- say healthcare- evaluate the work of their peers for quality and suitability for inclusion in academic journals and other relevant publications. While the peer review process is intended to ensure the integrity and accuracy of published research, there are several dangers associated …
Peer Review Should Not Be the Gold Standard
This is a follow-up to my original publication that was put out back in December 2022, where I detailed the propensity for fraud and misconduct that takes place during the peer review process. You can read that original article here: This process is used for getting articles/ studies published in what are deemed reputable and well-respected journals. Y…
Here is a stunning quote from a woman who has quite probably read and analyzed more medical-drug studies than any doctor in the world:
“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.”
(Dr. Marcia Angell, NY Review of Books, January 15, 2009, “Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption)
https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/academic-censorship?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email compliments your work I think.