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Alas, that's not the way the publishing world works. If a study on vaccination ends up in a food & toxicology journal, there's typically a reason for that! And

Alas, that's not the way the publishing world works. If a study on vaccination ends up in a food & toxicology journal, there's typically a reason for that! And if it ends up in the 29th most impactful food & toxicology journal[1], there's typically a reason for that too. [1] - https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=3005 https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=3005

Izkata 5y ago
Calling it a "food toxicology journal" is significantly downplaying its scope. Even just the name of it is "food and chemical", and this is what it says about itself: > Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT), an internationally renowned journal, that publishes original research articles and reviews on toxic effects, in animals and humans, of natural or synthetic chemicals occurring in the human environment with particular emphasis on food, drugs, and chemicals, including agricultural and industrial safety, and consumer product safety. Areas such as safety evaluation of novel foods and ingredients, biotechnologically-derived products, and nanomaterials are included in the scope of the journal. FCT also encourages submission of papers on inter-relationships between nutrition and toxicology and on in vitro techniques, particularly those fostering the 3 Rs. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/food-and-chemical-toxicology/about/aims-and-scope https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/food-and-chemical-toxi...
- mikeyouse 5y ago
  Point taken that their scope is more broad than food tox, but again, read their description of what they publish and then ask yourself whether safety profiles of vaccines fit into that description. You can do one better - search their records for all of the prior safety work they've done on vaccines: https://www.sciencedirect.com/search?qs=vaccine&pub=Food%20and%20Chemical%20Toxicology&cid=271257&date=1995-2019&show=100 https://www.sciencedirect.com/search?qs=vaccine&pub=Food%20a... Given that they have absolutely no history of assessing overall vaccine safety or toxicology, how prepared do you think they are to appropriately assess this one? Do you think the reviewers who work with this journal have the expertise to properly weight the claims in the submitted paper? Vaccine safety research is published in vaccine journals, or medical journals, or infectious disease journals, or immunology journals, or rheumatology journals because those journals all have experts that can actually critically review the submissions. When people publish 'controversial' research for a field of study, in a journal outside the scope of that field, they're promoting nonsense ~100% of the time.

Izkata 5y ago

Calling it a "food toxicology journal" is significantly downplaying its scope. Even just the name of it is "food and chemical", and this is what it says about itself: > Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT), an internationally renowned journal, that publishes original research articles and reviews on toxic effects, in animals and humans, of natural or synthetic chemicals occurring in the human environment with particular emphasis on food, drugs, and chemicals, including agricultural and industrial safety, and consumer product safety. Areas such as safety evaluation of novel foods and ingredients, biotechnologically-derived products, and nanomaterials are included in the scope of the journal. FCT also encourages submission of papers on inter-relationships between nutrition and toxicology and on in vitro techniques, particularly those fostering the 3 Rs. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/food-and-chemical-toxicology/about/aims-and-scope https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/food-and-chemical-toxi...

mikeyouse 5y ago
Point taken that their scope is more broad than food tox, but again, read their description of what they publish and then ask yourself whether safety profiles of vaccines fit into that description. You can do one better - search their records for all of the prior safety work they've done on vaccines: https://www.sciencedirect.com/search?qs=vaccine&pub=Food%20and%20Chemical%20Toxicology&cid=271257&date=1995-2019&show=100 https://www.sciencedirect.com/search?qs=vaccine&pub=Food%20a... Given that they have absolutely no history of assessing overall vaccine safety or toxicology, how prepared do you think they are to appropriately assess this one? Do you think the reviewers who work with this journal have the expertise to properly weight the claims in the submitted paper? Vaccine safety research is published in vaccine journals, or medical journals, or infectious disease journals, or immunology journals, or rheumatology journals because those journals all have experts that can actually critically review the submissions. When people publish 'controversial' research for a field of study, in a journal outside the scope of that field, they're promoting nonsense ~100% of the time.