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The COVID pandemic vaccine mania has definitely shed light on the broader issues of vaccines - and especially the possible horrific link with autism. The horrors of COVID have made it possible to imagine overt harm by the medical establishment against the public.
The issue of publication/retraction has also come to a head in the pandemic.…
The COVID pandemic vaccine mania has definitely shed light on the broader issues of vaccines - and especially the possible horrific link with autism. The horrors of COVID have made it possible to imagine overt harm by the medical establishment against the public.
The issue of publication/retraction has also come to a head in the pandemic. I think there is a pretty strong case to be made that peer-review itself is at the core of the rot of the scientific/medical establishment. It provides a facade of consensus/approval/orderly progress but is in fact contrary to the spirit of discovery which is more iconoclastic and chaotic. The "top" medical journals are extraordinarily propagandistic. My vote is for abandoning the peer-review system - the faster the better.
Some of these points were made in a recent article, "The rise and fall of peer review": https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web