Not surprising! Our government has become a non-elected bureau of - hand out the money and claim we're doing something about a problem. No oversight or final outcome. Just pat oneself on the back and move the goal posts.
I first began to doubt the legitimacy of scientific "research" when coming across the work of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, who encountered enormous resistance from Michael Mann et al. when seeking to see the data that Mann used in creating his "hockey stick graph". It is so evident that scientists just assume that we will take their word for it, and so the notion of rigor has fallen behind getting published (and making headlines). I want to trust scientists, we NEED to be able to trust scientists, but climate "scientists" and now epidemiologists are doing everything they can to actually destroy that trust.
The unfortunate losers in all this are the genuine researchers (if any) who are conducting research to find cures. I'm aware of radiothons, races, galas, etc., held in my City of Boston to raise money for cancer research. Now I'm questioning whether I should contribute to these causes or if I'm simply enabling some bozo with a medical degree to get his name on a paper or in a journal. Pitiful.
The problems of corrupted medical research is profound. Pharma companies, and pharma connected foundations like Gates, etc. are the major funders of medical research. Its something like 90% of medical research is funded by the industry. Clinical trials in particular are expensive. The goal becomes to make the new treatment or drug succeed the trial. Covid vaccines! psychiatric drugs! You can't trust the research...
In the early 1960s, my dad went to go and get a masters. He ended up not completing the degree after he got into a shouting match with the professor/researcher whose work he was using to complete his own thesis work. He went and spoke to the guy in the lunch room to ask him, not confront, about the work he was doing. My dad had been unable to replicate the man’s findings when he would try to replicate his research experiments. The man blew up at my father in public, and threatened to discredit him and have him expelled if he questioned it further. Needless to say, my dad never finished the degree.
this problem has been going on for decades, so it’s really nothing new, nor surprised to me.
We should simply follow the leftist science. There is no way the leftist medical mafia will lift an eyebrow in the search for a cure to cancer. Medicine in the US treats symptoms. Diseases that kill us are self inflicted by lifestyle and the myriad medications many of us prescribed.
I'll add this gem for anyone interested. The 200% uptick in cases of pancreatic cancer in young women should be sounding alarm bells in the west. Has anyone noticed?
This behavior has been around nearly 50 years, if not longer. The renowned Harvard cardiologist, Dr. Eugene Braunwald - one of the founders of the "clinical trials" racket - was involved in one of the earliest noteworthy cases: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,955142-2,00.html
As long as there are excess $$ from government (NIH), medical industry, and medical NGO's (American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, etc.), fraudsters will be among the pigs at the trough.
I volunteered for many years as a breast cancer research advocate at Dana Farber. I was on a project lead by a Harvard Medical School researcher. At one point she contacted me to tell me that she had learned the post doc running the project had used fraudulent data in his PhD thesis. His thesis advisor had discovered the fraud and revealed it. Of course, he was let go. She reported the problem to the funding agency and had to return the funds that had already been spent. It was not an insignificant amount. There are honorable researchers. It is humanly impossible to keep up with volume of data and publications. There are excellent researchers and there are frauds. I wish I had a solution.
Wow. I saw Dr. Yoon for a second opinion years ago. Though I ended up under the care of a different doctor, I found him to be helpful and knowledgeable. This is jarring.
Academia, even at the most prestigious institutions, has fallen flat on its face. Even in something so serious as cancer research. First, we had Suzy Weiss' article on how reputable cancer researcher David Sabatini was pressured out of MIT by a vindictive female fellow researcher, now we're being told that scores of published papers used false and even imaginary data. And the only reason they were caught is that the authors included the raw data in their papers. It seems the Ivory Towers of cancer research have been invaded by snide high schoolers, eager to pose as serious intellectuals and sly enough to hide their inadequacies. Just don't publish the data, and you're home free.
Not surprising! Our government has become a non-elected bureau of - hand out the money and claim we're doing something about a problem. No oversight or final outcome. Just pat oneself on the back and move the goal posts.
I first began to doubt the legitimacy of scientific "research" when coming across the work of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, who encountered enormous resistance from Michael Mann et al. when seeking to see the data that Mann used in creating his "hockey stick graph". It is so evident that scientists just assume that we will take their word for it, and so the notion of rigor has fallen behind getting published (and making headlines). I want to trust scientists, we NEED to be able to trust scientists, but climate "scientists" and now epidemiologists are doing everything they can to actually destroy that trust.
The unfortunate losers in all this are the genuine researchers (if any) who are conducting research to find cures. I'm aware of radiothons, races, galas, etc., held in my City of Boston to raise money for cancer research. Now I'm questioning whether I should contribute to these causes or if I'm simply enabling some bozo with a medical degree to get his name on a paper or in a journal. Pitiful.
Claudine Gay. FUMU principle
Publish or Perish. What greater incentive to publish at any cost.
To what extent can AI help with this problem?
Garbage in/garbage out?
Newton said he was able to make his discoveries because he stood on the shoulders of giants.
Today, science seems to be standing on a swiveling office chair whose teflon coated casters are on an ice rink.
The problems of corrupted medical research is profound. Pharma companies, and pharma connected foundations like Gates, etc. are the major funders of medical research. Its something like 90% of medical research is funded by the industry. Clinical trials in particular are expensive. The goal becomes to make the new treatment or drug succeed the trial. Covid vaccines! psychiatric drugs! You can't trust the research...
In the early 1960s, my dad went to go and get a masters. He ended up not completing the degree after he got into a shouting match with the professor/researcher whose work he was using to complete his own thesis work. He went and spoke to the guy in the lunch room to ask him, not confront, about the work he was doing. My dad had been unable to replicate the man’s findings when he would try to replicate his research experiments. The man blew up at my father in public, and threatened to discredit him and have him expelled if he questioned it further. Needless to say, my dad never finished the degree.
this problem has been going on for decades, so it’s really nothing new, nor surprised to me.
We should simply follow the leftist science. There is no way the leftist medical mafia will lift an eyebrow in the search for a cure to cancer. Medicine in the US treats symptoms. Diseases that kill us are self inflicted by lifestyle and the myriad medications many of us prescribed.
Leftism is the root of all that ails humanity.
I'll add this gem for anyone interested. The 200% uptick in cases of pancreatic cancer in young women should be sounding alarm bells in the west. Has anyone noticed?
Say it ain't so, Joe. Biden, Shoeless Joe, medical science, COVID, politics, Ukraine, whatever. Good Grief.
This behavior has been around nearly 50 years, if not longer. The renowned Harvard cardiologist, Dr. Eugene Braunwald - one of the founders of the "clinical trials" racket - was involved in one of the earliest noteworthy cases: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,955142-2,00.html
As long as there are excess $$ from government (NIH), medical industry, and medical NGO's (American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, etc.), fraudsters will be among the pigs at the trough.
I volunteered for many years as a breast cancer research advocate at Dana Farber. I was on a project lead by a Harvard Medical School researcher. At one point she contacted me to tell me that she had learned the post doc running the project had used fraudulent data in his PhD thesis. His thesis advisor had discovered the fraud and revealed it. Of course, he was let go. She reported the problem to the funding agency and had to return the funds that had already been spent. It was not an insignificant amount. There are honorable researchers. It is humanly impossible to keep up with volume of data and publications. There are excellent researchers and there are frauds. I wish I had a solution.
Wow. I saw Dr. Yoon for a second opinion years ago. Though I ended up under the care of a different doctor, I found him to be helpful and knowledgeable. This is jarring.
That’s it? That’s all the longer this article is?
The data was hidden.
Academia, even at the most prestigious institutions, has fallen flat on its face. Even in something so serious as cancer research. First, we had Suzy Weiss' article on how reputable cancer researcher David Sabatini was pressured out of MIT by a vindictive female fellow researcher, now we're being told that scores of published papers used false and even imaginary data. And the only reason they were caught is that the authors included the raw data in their papers. It seems the Ivory Towers of cancer research have been invaded by snide high schoolers, eager to pose as serious intellectuals and sly enough to hide their inadequacies. Just don't publish the data, and you're home free.