David Rasnick, PhD, is a scientist with over two decades of pharmaceutical experience, renowned for his work on the aneuploidy theory of cancer, protease inhibitors, and his role on South Africa’s Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
In other words, he knows a lot about cancer and AIDS.
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David wrote a fantastic commentary on the death of science, called The Tyranny of Dogma, in which he argues that institutional despotism suppresses dissent and perpetuates junk science through a systemic corruption of professional and governmental institutions.
Put simply, he argues that science is dead because powerful interests suppress disagreement and dissent.
Stanford’s John Ioannidis has spent two decades demonstrating why the overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed science is either fabricated or sheer nonsense.
Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry.
—Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, 2004
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.
—Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, 2009
Most of what appears in peer-reviewed journals is scientifically weak.
—Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ
Okay, so we've established that 'trusting the science' is a stupid idea. 🤣
