Straw man argument. Of course, you can deny that the phama industry in particular has a massive influence on publications like the Lancet. After all, such publ

Straw man argument. Of course, you can deny that the phama industry in particular has a massive influence on publications like the Lancet. After all, such publications are essential for the approval of a drug. And with multi-billion dollar projects, managers will naturally refuse to have any influence on these publications. After all, it's all about science, and the pharmaceutical industry works exclusively for the benefit of mankind. That corresponding agencies exist, which flood the community with secondary papers to make a publication appear "credible" is of course just a nasty fairy tale. The fact that scientists defame each other as conspiracy theorists - as happened with the lab-leak theory - is of course also only in the best interests of science. But of course you are right - in science everyone works completely selflessly and honorably hand in hand for the exclusive good of mankind.