The article is just a re-hash of the Surgisphere scandal, which is widely documented in many other outlets and newspapers. The quote it starts with is on a vid

The article is just a re-hash of the Surgisphere scandal, which is widely documented in many other outlets and newspapers. The quote it starts with is on a video on YouTube, you can go watch it yourself. I think it's bunk personally: it's a second hand account of something the head of the Lancet supposedly said, but if he really said it, he should be ashamed. He was basically saying pharma firms do such perfect, ideal science that he can't find any reason to reject their papers. Surely that's a good thing. At any rate, it's a distraction. Surgisphere isn't a big pharma firm but rather a front company, for who is unknown. The Lancet apparently gets worked up about legit pharma companies submitting valid papers, but lets through nonsensical fraudulent papers when they align with the editor's preferred findings. That says nothing good about the Lancet.