Why is it that all the covid contrarians, minimizers, anti-maskers, and anti-vaxxers publish in science journals & shove out proper looking content all the time, and meanwhile pro public health people and doctors who claim to care about the vulnerable seem more interested in being social media twitter hotshots and doing nothing else? Why aren’t more sensible people publishing stuff like the People’s External Review of the CDC for example? Why are debunks of nonsense relegated to twitter posts as twitter circles the drain and never really had most people looking at it to begin with?
Is it deliberate? Apparently it is deliberate. And I guess it looks like all the money to pay for this deliberateness is anti public health.
New York Magazine INTELLIGENCER – MAY 21, 2024 Why Scientific Fraud Is Suddenly Everywhere By Kevin T. Dugan Citations are so easy to game. So people are setting up citation cartels: “Yes, we will get all of our other clients to cite you, and nobody will notice because we’re doing it in this algorithmic, mixed-up way.” Eventually, people do notice, but it’s the insistence on citations as the coin of the realm that all of this comes from.
Good people with good intentions need to step up and publish more. I know it’s hard, but it’s the only way.