Category: peer review

The Controversy of Research Censorship and Preprints

Long before COVID-19, academics squabbled about the methodology, clinical sample sizes, and data manipulation of published scientific papers—especially if they did not agree with conclusions or were educational rivals. Since the medical journal publication process—especially peer review are so slow—the latter taking longer than a year at some journals—many researchers have turned to preprint servers….


Science Should Be Fact-Based, Not Propaganda

In June 2022, the prestigious science journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) published a paper by Seneff et. al. The paper, “Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes, and MicroRNAs,” submitted that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines impair a critical part of the immune system and in doing so may have…


Journal Publisher Retracts Over 300 Chinese-Affiliated Papers, Citing Fake Peer-Review Process

China has frequently been at the forefront of peer-review scandals, with numerous fake-paper factories a growing concern in the global scientific community. The country has retracted more scientific papers because of faked peer reviews than all other countries and territories combined, according to a scientific journal watchdog. The scientific publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)…