The "journal" Medical Hypotheses in that period was a complete piece of crap, with no effective peer review. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/is-t

The "journal" Medical Hypotheses in that period was a complete piece of crap, with no effective peer review. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/is-there-a-role-for-speculative-journals-like-medical-hypotheses-in-the-scientific-literature/ http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/is-there-a-rol... http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100318/full/news.2010.132.html http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100318/full/news.2010.132.ht... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/05/medical-hypotheses-editor-out-ed.html http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/05/medical-hy... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/05/medical-hypotheses-editor-out-ed.html http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/05/medical-hy... See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465503 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465503 a comment by another Hacker News participant with strong understanding of human physiology.