Two speakers examine how medical journals control what research gets published and who profits from it. Robert Maxwell's takeover of scientific publishing set a precedent for profit-driven journals that now shape which studies see the light of day.
Do you know the history of medical journals?
Going back to the Flexner Report?
No, going back to Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell's father. You know about that?
I didn't know this connection.
So he started the publishing industry for medical journals. And his idea was basically wine and dine the most important innovators and professors and convince them that they needed to be giving him their most precious stuff to be put in journals so it could be judged as worthy for free, and then he would sell it back to the universities. This is what created so many of the problems in science, is that there's now an economic incentive. To this day, there's four big publications and they all evolved from that one model and his is the largest one. I forget the name of the company, but there's a direct link to Epstein. You can't even make this up. But that broke science, right? And so one of the reasons that you believe that, and I believe that is because there is an organized system that suppresses science to make money.
I've seen that up close and personal because I've gotten to know some of these scientists and they'll tell me, we will submit a well done study, control, double blind, everything you need, and a journal will say, we're not publishing this because the implications violate effectively what our belief system is.
