Medicine is at a crossroads. Once rooted in rigorous inquiry and open scientific discourse, it’s now increasingly entangled in politics, censorship, and manipulation, especially in the world of academic publishing.
Dr. Sabine Hazan, a renowned gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher, learned this the hard way. Her groundbreaking hypothesis, suggesting ivermectin may increase bifidobacteria, potentially impacting cancer treatment, was peer-reviewed and published in the journal Frontiers. The study quickly became the journal’s most-read article, garnering over 59,000 views and sparking global interest among physicians.
But nine months later, the journal abruptly retracted the paper. Why? According to Dr. Hazan, her research drew too much attention to ivermectin, a controversial subject some institutions would rather suppress than explore.
“This isn’t science anymore,” she says. “These aren’t journals, they’re propaganda machines. If your data threatens the status quo, they will come after you.”
Her experience isn’t an isolated case. In a striking example of the broader crisis in academic publishing, the major scientific publisher Wiley recently retracted over 11,000 papers from its Hindawi journals. Many of these retractions were linked to fraudulent peer review processes and paper mills, mass-produced studies designed to game the system. The scale of the scandal was so severe that Wiley ultimately shut down four entire journals.
These incidents expose a deeper truth: journals that present themselves as guardians of science are increasingly vulnerable to corruption, manipulation, and political pressure. What does this mean for real researchers? For real breakthroughs?
How many life-saving discoveries have already been buried?
It’s time to ask hard questions about the integrity of modern scientific publishing and who gets to decide what counts as “acceptable” science.
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