Oct 29, 2025 06:16 PM
‘Confusing and frankly, disturbing’: When researchers are impersonated
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/23/c...personated
EXCERPT: Identity theft is a growing threat to academia. Fraudsters may impersonate reviewers or former colleagues to make sure articles they or their accomplices write receive favorable reviews. Journals may be hijacked, swindling authors into paying hundreds of dollars for useless publications. Or researchers may find their names on papers they never wrote... (MORE - details)
Intellectual Quackery: When medical journals won’t publish corrections
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/int...l-quackery
INTRO: ‘Censorship of Essential Debate in Gender Medicine Research’ has the dullest possible title for what it reveals. In yet another example of trans ideology destroying everything it touches, the most prestigious journals in medicine are refusing to publish corrections to papers that contain demonstrably false claims about gender medicine.
The author, J. Cohn, didn’t set out to write about censorship. She tried to correct errors in published papers. When that didn’t work, she described what happened. She found that multiple systematic reviews (the gold standard in evidence-based medicine) have found low or very low-certainty evidence for the benefits of medical gender interventions. This includes puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery. ‘Low certainty’ means there’s limited confidence the estimated effects will match what actually happens to patients.
The Cass Review, published in 2024, found the evidence for paediatric interventions “remarkably weak.” Several other systematic reviews found the same for patients under 21 and under 26.
None have found that these interventions reduce suicide risk. Meanwhile, major medical journals keep publishing papers claiming the opposite... (MORE - details)
Applied Postmodernism: How "Idea Laundering" is Crippling American Universities ... https://youtu.be/XeXfV0tAxt
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/23/c...personated
EXCERPT: Identity theft is a growing threat to academia. Fraudsters may impersonate reviewers or former colleagues to make sure articles they or their accomplices write receive favorable reviews. Journals may be hijacked, swindling authors into paying hundreds of dollars for useless publications. Or researchers may find their names on papers they never wrote... (MORE - details)
Intellectual Quackery: When medical journals won’t publish corrections
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/int...l-quackery
INTRO: ‘Censorship of Essential Debate in Gender Medicine Research’ has the dullest possible title for what it reveals. In yet another example of trans ideology destroying everything it touches, the most prestigious journals in medicine are refusing to publish corrections to papers that contain demonstrably false claims about gender medicine.
The author, J. Cohn, didn’t set out to write about censorship. She tried to correct errors in published papers. When that didn’t work, she described what happened. She found that multiple systematic reviews (the gold standard in evidence-based medicine) have found low or very low-certainty evidence for the benefits of medical gender interventions. This includes puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery. ‘Low certainty’ means there’s limited confidence the estimated effects will match what actually happens to patients.
The Cass Review, published in 2024, found the evidence for paediatric interventions “remarkably weak.” Several other systematic reviews found the same for patients under 21 and under 26.
None have found that these interventions reduce suicide risk. Meanwhile, major medical journals keep publishing papers claiming the opposite... (MORE - details)
Applied Postmodernism: How "Idea Laundering" is Crippling American Universities ... https://youtu.be/XeXfV0tAxt