The things you have to do to be heard

What a new nursing home study hides Dr Clare Craig A new paper in Medical Research Archives examines all-cause mortality across 15,000 US nursing homes from May 2022 to June 2023, stratified by vaccination status. The authors – Denhaerynck, Mead and Wolfinger – use forward and reverse lag models to show that mortality rose following […]

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Journal Gatekeeping:

Are medical journals increasingly acting as ‘gatekeepers’ to promote ‘established narratives’ but sideline research that challenges the status quo? Many articles containing  ‘controversial’ views that initially achieved publication have been promptly retracted. In the past 5 years, the retraction of papers criticizing the covid vaccines or lockdown policies, for example, has gone stratospheric….

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Peer Review:

Peer review is a system used by scientists and clinicians to decide which primary research or secondary (review/commentary) content is worthy of being published. In theory it is a process of cumulative, collective knowledge that through publications is cascaded from experts to readers. But in practice things are not always what they seem!

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