Monday, January 25, 2010

Medical Veritas The Journal of truth in Health science 

Medical Veritas The Journal of truth in Health science 

Here is an excerpt:

THIS new online format of MEDICAL VERITAS features an article by investigative journalist Sherri Kane in collaboration with this new Editor-in-Chief, submitted (Dec. 3, 2009) for publication initially to The Lancet. “PHARMAGANDA: A Study in Conflicting Interests,” we sent to Lancet editors because they published a commentary on April 6, 2002, condemning the impact of special interests on the practice of medicine.

A few days later (Dec.10, 2009) we received a rejection notice from the Senior Executive Editor, Sabine Kleinert, without any criticism or suggested redirection as the system of peer reviewing was established to provide for everyone’s benefit in advancing science.

Determined to understand why this rejection was administered, in light of this paper’s obvious urgency, I Google-searched the corporate owners of The Lancet and quickly determined the journal’s publisher, Elsevier, had been purchased by the Reed Company. The merger formed Reed-Elsevier, a virtual monopoly over the entire medical and scientific publishing industry.

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