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Originally Posted by Difflugia
I read through the draft and it sounds more unhinged than that. I noticed that most of the bibliography refers to editorials in the journal Medical Hypotheses by the author, Bruce Charlton, who was editor-in-chief at the time (according to Wikipedia). After the journal published some stuff by AIDS denialists, Elsevier told Charlton that published papers needed to be peer-reviewed. Charlton refused and was fired.
The whole thing reminds me of Linus Pauling and his Vitamin C weirdness. Clinical trials demonstrated that Pauling's medical ideas were wrong and instead of accepting the results, he pretty much rode off the rails and started accusing the medical establishment of scientific fraud. |
Yeah, I think I'll take a pass on Bruce Charlton. There's a good history of why Elsevier ended his journal here:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/20...ses-editor-br/
Highlights include
some of the junk thimerosol-austism papers Charlton published (and with five BABIES now with confirmed measles near Chicago I have no tolerance in my heart for such nonsense). Other goodies included:
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ideas that masturbation is a treatment for nasal congestion, a paper
linking high heeled shoes to schizophrenia, a meditation on the
nature of navel fluff, and
truly offensive speculations about “mongoloids” (i.e., they're "Oriental").
So I think I'll take a pass on such BS. Heck, if I want fantasy science this crazy I'll go read T.D. Lysenko.