Reply #14: You're not understanding what's being said. [View All]

[trotsky]

OK, so the JAMA bans the author. He goes somewhere else & a journal with less stringent requirements publishes him. Did you solve any problems? As seen right in this forum, people will go and pull articles from even the silliest of "official" journals.

Even IF there was a way to get all journals on board and they could create a blacklist, those journals then indeed DO run the risk of antitrust. How long should a researcher be blacklisted? If they perform research for different industries, should they only be blacklisted for the one(s) they failed to disclose? All of them?

The system is not perfect, but if that's what you want, you'll never get it. You've got to strike a balance between censoring good science and preventing the crap science, and at least JAMA is trying.

This to me just smacks of the same attitude that if one flaw can be found in "traditional" medicine, then the whole system is hopelessly corrupt and nothing it produces can be trusted. And of course, the flipside, people in "alternative" medicine can invariably be trusted, even when they make claims they can't support.