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A shocking admission by the editor of the world's most respected medical journal, The Lancet
, has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-chief of the Lancet
recently published a statement declaring that a shocking amount of published research is unreliable at best, if not completely false, as in, fraudulent.Horton declared,
"Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness."To state the point in other words, Horton states bluntly that major pharmaceutical companies falsify or manipulate tests on the health, safety and effectiveness of their various drugs by taking samples too small to be statistically meaningful or hiring test labs or scientists where the lab or scientist has blatant conflicts of interest such as pleasing the drug company to get further grants. At least half of all such tests are worthless or worse he claims. As the drugs have a major effect on the health of millions of consumers, the manipulation amounts to criminal dereliction and malfeasance.
The drug industry-sponsored studies Horton refers to develop
commercial drugs or
vaccines to supposedly help people, used to train medical staff, to educate medical students and more.
Horton wrote his shocking comments after attending a symposium on the reproducibility and reliability of biomedical research at the Wellcome Trust in London. He noted the confidentiality or "Chatham House" rules where attendees are forbidden to name names: "
'A lot of what is published is incorrect.' I'm not allowed to say who made this remark because we were asked to observe Chatham House rules. We were also asked not to take photographs of
slides."
Other voicesDr. Marcia Angell is a physician and was longtime Editor-in-Chief of the
New England Medical Journal (NEMJ), considered to be another one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. Angell stated,
"
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."Harvey Marcovitch, who has studied and written about the corruption of medical tests and publication in medical journals, writes, "studies showing positive outcomes for a drug or device under consideration are more likely to be published than 'negative' studies; editors are partly to blame for this but so are commercial sponsors, whose
methodologically well-conducted studies with unfavorable results tended not to see the light of day..."
At the University of British Columbia's Neural Dynamics Research Group in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dr Lucija Tomljenovic obtained documents that showed that, "
vaccine manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and health authorities have known about multiple dangers associated with vaccines but chose to withhold them from the public. This is scientific fraud, and their complicity suggests that this practice continues to this day."
Lancet's Dr. Horton concludes, "Those who have the power to act seem to think somebody else should act first. And every positive action (eg, funding well-powered replications) has a counter-argument (science will become less creative). The good news is that science is beginning to take some of its worst failings very seriously. The bad news is
that nobody is ready to take the first step to clean up the system.
Corruption of the medical industry worldwide is a huge issue, perhaps more dangerous than the threat of all wars combined. Do we have such hypnosis and blind faith in our doctors simply because of their white coats that we believe they are infallible? And, in turn, do they have such blind faith in the medical journals recommending a given new wonder medicine or vaccine that they rush to give the drugs or vaccines without considering these deeper issues?
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook".
Comment: Finally, finally, we have some deep acknowledgement from establishment science of what others in the alternative health field have been saying, literally, for decades - and have become vilified for. The run-away train that has become modern medicine and science has, and will, destroy the life of many millions. Its time that the people of conscience in this field take a much stronger stand.
I've noticed that those who report to the medical industry regularly are the unhealthiest people I know. In fact, when I use to go I noticed the doctors looked unhealthy! That should tell you something. The healthiest are the ones who don't go. They found the truth online. It's so simple it's ridiculous. And doesn't cost anything.
The medical industry is another con to suck your hard earned money out of you and to enrich the already rich even more. A racket!