Hi Jed,
I posted the article more in a general sense, but also thinking about what has
gone on in the past with LENR/CF and Taleyarkin being persecuted and dealing
with unscrupulous academics and politicians…
I certainly did not mean to link it to what’s being discussed in the Parkhomov
or Jiang work…
-mark
From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 3:02 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:One more article that all should read...
MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote:
Editors of World’s Most Prestigious Medical Journals:
“Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/editors-world%E2%80%99s-most-prestigious-medical-journals-%E2%80%9Cmuch-scientific-literature-perhap
Science education should continually reinforce the fact that integrity and
morality are absolutely necessary for the scientific process to work…
Let us not confuse mistakes with immorality. There have always been many
mistakes in the scientific literature. I do not know whether they are more
common today than in the past, but they were there.
Granted, there has also always been corruption in research.
I believe medical research and practice has always been especially prone to
this. In Darrell Huff's cynical little masterpiece of a book, he described a
medical test without enough control cases. It was a test of the polio vaccine
with 450 children vaccinated and 680 unvaccinated. After an epidemic: Not one
of the vaccinated children contracted a recognizable case of polio. . . .
Neither did any of the controls. . . . At the usual rate, only two cases would
have been expected in a group this size . . . He concludes:
Many a great, if fleeting, medical discovery has been launched similarly.
'Make haste,' as one physician put it, 'to use a new remedy before it is too
late.
- How to Lie with Statistics (1954)
Quite a number of treatments and practices common 20 years ago are no longer
recommended, such as an EKG with every annual checkup. My doctor told me it
produces more false positives and problems than useful information.
- Jed