And they tell us to ‘trust the science’. While mulling over why the publisher of my latest medical journal article would publish such a low-quality response piece I just may have stumbled onto the biggest academic publishing scandal of all time. Hundreds of articles published, thousands even, in proper scientific and medical journals, in mere months. Remember the Sokal affair? This is bigger. Remember Sokal squared? This is bigger. We all had a good laugh at the eventually retracted ‘penis as a social construct’ article and the ‘get me off your fucking mailing list’ article, but this is bigger.
Hi Raphael, The Letter to the Editor on your article "How the adverse effect counting window affected vaccine safety calculations in randomised trials of COVID-19 vaccines" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jep.13962 is:
Re: How the adverse effect counting window affected vaccine safety calculations in randomised trials of COVID-19 vaccines
Hinpetch Daungsupawong PhD, Viroj Wiwanitkit MD
Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice 2024-02-26
Thanks for bringing these examples to light. It is truly bizarre to see such publication statistics. Does anybody actually claim to read all these papers, let alone claim to write them??
And this is "the science"!
Small wonder that many of us have stopped regarding the journals as sources of information, but rather as sources of propaganda.
Somewhere along the way, academia became post-truth… AI, which depends on real-world data produced by post-truth academics for its “profundity” is only going to accelerate the spiralling madness.
Dr Lataster, yours is the best take down and take apart of the ills currently plaguing medical journal publishing. Best wishes to you for your success at getting this message out! Thank you!!
The covid fascism has been a giant Asch conformity test. Put your hand up if you are an experienced researcher who let yourself be injected with experimental slop (multiple times!) or wore a filthy face rag for hours at a time… now take that hand and slap yourself in the face… you failed.
Raphael, we're in midst of an implosion. Beginning with the dubious 'Enlightenment' we reached supernova status, debatably, c.1960. Since then we have undergone transformation into a bloated red giant and are now poised to collapse into a small black hole. The implied innuendo appears self-evident.
We are well past any point of academic redemption given that the institutions have also been thoroughly co-opted and rejoice on international platforms like, The "Conn." aka. 'Conversation' while spruiking DIE ideology, which is about as far removed from a testable hypothesis as one might get.
Hi Raphael, The Letter to the Editor on your article "How the adverse effect counting window affected vaccine safety calculations in randomised trials of COVID-19 vaccines" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jep.13962 is:
Re: How the adverse effect counting window affected vaccine safety calculations in randomised trials of COVID-19 vaccines
Hinpetch Daungsupawong PhD, Viroj Wiwanitkit MD
Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice 2024-02-26
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jep.13976
There is no abstract and the PDF is paywalled. So we can't read it.
Looking at the earliest articles listed at Researchgate for these two authors, the earliest are:
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Hinpetch-Daungsupawong-2261492689
A comment in a journal published on 2023-09-28: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/bam/article/view/11722 with the second author:
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Viroj-Wiwanitkit-2061464149/publications/9
2004 - a paywalled article at: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/088282402320914566 which is available at: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1089/088282402320914566 .
He seems to be a real person. See this article at Retraction Watch: https://retractionwatch.com/2023/07/24/meet-the-author-who-has-published-more-than-500-letters-to-the-editor-in-a-year/ which mentions him as being "hyperprolific".
Thanks for bringing these examples to light. It is truly bizarre to see such publication statistics. Does anybody actually claim to read all these papers, let alone claim to write them??
And this is "the science"!
Small wonder that many of us have stopped regarding the journals as sources of information, but rather as sources of propaganda.
Somewhere along the way, academia became post-truth… AI, which depends on real-world data produced by post-truth academics for its “profundity” is only going to accelerate the spiralling madness.
Dr Lataster, yours is the best take down and take apart of the ills currently plaguing medical journal publishing. Best wishes to you for your success at getting this message out! Thank you!!
The covid fascism has been a giant Asch conformity test. Put your hand up if you are an experienced researcher who let yourself be injected with experimental slop (multiple times!) or wore a filthy face rag for hours at a time… now take that hand and slap yourself in the face… you failed.
Raphael, we're in midst of an implosion. Beginning with the dubious 'Enlightenment' we reached supernova status, debatably, c.1960. Since then we have undergone transformation into a bloated red giant and are now poised to collapse into a small black hole. The implied innuendo appears self-evident.
We are well past any point of academic redemption given that the institutions have also been thoroughly co-opted and rejoice on international platforms like, The "Conn." aka. 'Conversation' while spruiking DIE ideology, which is about as far removed from a testable hypothesis as one might get.
Good wishes, https://drlatusdextro.substack.com/