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Thanks for the link, it was a good example of something worth clearing up. But I'm not sure things like chiropractics is comparable to your example - it's tras
by bedobi 5y ago
Thanks for the link, it was a good example of something worth clearing up.
But I'm not sure things like chiropractics is comparable to your example - it's trash, we know it's trash and having a journal where people argue the merits of it and other similar trash would just be psuedoscience cargo culting the peer review process to lend itself an air or superficial legitimacy. Which is fine I guess, because sane people will just ignore such "journals".
But it is a shame that this particular "journal" initiative chose to focus on nonsense instead of filling a niche that might actually use filling - a legit journal for ideas that do have evidence behind them, but are still controversial for other reasons, and risk not getting published as a result.
A good example might be where ancestry meets medicine and biology, which has been justifiably kind of banned from public discourse due to its long and sad history of racist nonsense, but which if legitimately studied could save and improve lives - eg, there's the fairly widely known example of the blood thinning medicine that works for "white" people but not for "black" people. (a gross oversimplification, as our social construct "race" labels are just that, social constructs, and are terrible proxies for actual underlying genes, but still, if people don't study and publish these things, disadvantaged groups are made even more disadvantaged by being prescribed treatments that work for others but not for them, which is terrible)
- 6510 5y ago> But I'm not sure things like chiropractics is comparable to your example I'm not doing an opinion about the topic as I'm completely unfamiliar with it but it seems disqualified from the scope as there are plenty of journals that do papers about chiropractic medicine. https://chiro.org/LINKS/journal.shtml#Journals https://chiro.org/LINKS/journal.shtml#Journals https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-chiropractic-medicine https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-chiropractic-me...