The current scientific paradigm needs to change to lessen reliance on journals and major funding entities such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Martin Kulldorff says. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the serious problems with the system, including how a select few control much of the financial support available to researchers in the United States and other Western countries, Kulldorff, the senior scientific director at the Brownstone Institute, told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.” “The scientific structures are broken,” said Kulldorff, one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration and a founding fellow of Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom. Many scientists need to publish scientific papers to advance in their careers. Some journals are considered more prestigious than others. Scientists try to get published in the journals with better reputations. Editors and reviewers at journals control what gets published. To carry out studies, scientists need to obtain …