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DrLatusDextro's avatar

"It is now time for the academic community to collaborate to make this happen!"

And pigs might fly?

The "community," arguably and perhaps even in large part described as a self-interested parasitic kollectiv chaperoned by the straitjacketed camp-guards of institutional HR, both together well captured and compliant tools, or the sadly coerced genuflectors to policy-based scientivism, has withered. Given the far-reaching societal ideological malaise dependent upon censorship and absolute control of the media, academic, political and corporate lingua franca (think, 'pregnant people' for example), is there any hope of either academic integrity, rigour or intellectual reinvention?

The neo-Marxist technofascist, deeply pernicious and increasingly incoherent 'long march through the institutions' appears well ensconced. Dutschke (German socialist) and Gramsci (an Italian disciple of Marx) proposed the viciously degrading and destructive idea of a cultural hegemony imposed by a self-appointed faux 'elite' (corporate/private neo-Marxist imbued tyrants maintaining power through government, bureaucratic, cultural and corporate institutions). Tinkering with the pall-reivew process appears too little too late.

We reside at a inflection point in history with the attempted tyrannical and brutal imposition of stark choices that become daily more obvious.

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john robinson's avatar

When the largest drug companies are immune from prosecution, when EUA status can be arbitrarily extended until 2029 with no justification whatsoever, when statistics regarding lack of efficacy and safety can be completely ignored, what difference would honesty in scientific publication make when it comes to meaningful changes in public health policy ( or any kind of policy)? Policy makers choose to ignore what is inconvenient for their collective agendas and overplay the nonsense that suits whomever the elites of the day happen to be. How long did it take for the Catholic church to exonerate Galileo? 359 years. Today's regulators will be long dead before any wrongdoing is admitted to. The veiled elites game plan? Deny, deny, deny through omission. They have the large scale thus the most influential "press" completely captured. Science and scientist have no "brand". BBC, NBC, CNN FOX et al do and they're using their brands to the fullest advantage with their crisis (non) journalism. 2000 years later

"divide and conquer" while providing "bread and circuses" is STILL an effective strategy isn't it?

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William Bowles's avatar

The question is; how do we remove the dead hand of Big Pharma? Big Pharma is an integral part of neoliberal capitalism, which in turn is inextricably intertwined with the state. This was never more apparent than with Covid 19, where in the UK, the Ministry of Health [sic] was/is joined at the hip not only to Big Pharma but to universities and research entities (not to mention the role of corporate and state media in projecting and validating the existence of a 'pandemic'). It strikes me that it's only with the overthrow and replacement of the entire thing, that we will tackle the growing problems we face.

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SaHiB's avatar

Abolish intellectual property other than trademark.

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Eleftherios Gkioulekas's avatar

You got it.

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Alfonso's avatar

True. Unfortunately, we have strayed in the wrong direction for too long. The problem has grown too large, and both state and corporate oligarchies now concentrate too much power. We are living under a liberal dictatorship. Remember Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ.

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/04/19/richard-smith-what-are-medical-journals-for-and-how-well-do-they-fulfil-those-functions/

With IA what is the reason for peer review? Futurists say we will replace clinical trials with in silico simulations, using massive populations and data banks. We shall see.

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DrLatusDextro's avatar

The irony of 'massive populations' that purport to generalise the behaviour, physiology, psychology of one. God help us.

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Rusty's avatar

"Falsified Scientific Research

In this connection, Dr Day admitted that some scientific research data could be – and indeed has been – falsified in order to bring about desired results. “People don’t ask the right questions. Some people are too trusting,” Dr Day said."

- https://drrichardday.wordpress.com/

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Stephen McMurray's avatar

The Medical profession as a whole has no relationship with science at all. It is full of greed, corruption and bad science. See my article on the subject

https://stephenmcmurray.substack.com/p/the-medical-profession-is-a-cesspool

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john robinson's avatar

I forgot to mention the corrupt doctors on the take. I notice that the doctors turned podcast pundits fail to put any blame on their brethren. Prescribing an EUA drug for F****N children and babies? That' F****N INSANE never mind unethical.

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