How to Dismantle the ‘Cartel’ of Public Health Funding and Rekindle Open Scientific Inquiry

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In "Broken Silence and the Path Forward," Dr. Martin Kulldorff, one of the drafters and signators to the Great Barrington Declaration, explains to Jan Jekielek of EpochTV's American Thought Leaders:

https://m.theepochtimes.com/dr-martin-kulldorff-how-to-dismantle-the-cartel-of-public-health-funding-and-rekindle-open-scientific-inquiry_4373507.html

Interview and rush transcript at link above.

Excerpts:

OnNATURAL IMMUNITY

"And that’s pretty astonishing to have a CDC director who does not recognize natural immunity after having recovered from COVID. And it’s pretty astonishing to have universities and university presidents and hospital presidents, including famous university hospital presidents who fire staff who have natural immunity from having recovered from COVID, which is superior to immunity from vaccines.""

OnCARTEL CONTROLLING MEDICAL RESEARCH FUNDING and PUBLICATION DECISIONS

"I think the scientific structures are broken and science is broken and public health is broken. There are probably various aspects to that. So, we’ll take a step back and see how science operates, in terms of making a scientific career. So, there’s sort of three pillars to that. One is, to make a scientific career, you have to publish scientific papers, and that you put that on your CV. And then, that establishes you as a scientist.

"And there are certain journals that are more prestigious to publish than others, Lancet that I mentioned, is one of them. New England Journal of Medicine is another more prestigious journals to publish them. And then, you have, of course, the editors there, and you have reviewers who controls who gets to publish there, or what gets to be published.

"And each area of science have sort of their own little group of people. My colleague, Dr. Sunetra Gupta at Oxford College said it’s like a cartel who sort of controls that, because they are the ones who have used the papers and they might be the associate editor and so on. And it’s important to publish in these journals if you want to have a career, because that’s sort of the currency of performance of scientists.

"Then, you have… Another thing is funding of research. To do research, you get to be funded, but also, to put on your CV, you have to sort of say that you have good enough science to be able to get funding from the National Institute of Health, for example. So, that’s also very, sort of the second leg, or second part of it, that you have to get research funding as a principal investigator.

"And then, the third leg is the promotions that are controlled by the universities. That’s the one that’s most decentralized. But even there, you need recommendation letters from, or evaluation letters from other people in your field, from other universities. So, you have the same group of people who are evaluating the grants, who are evaluating who should get published to the prestigious journals and who gets promoted. So, you have to be part of that group to succeed in science.

"And I think that leads to a lot of groupthink and people do not dare to go out on the edge, or on the fringe to voice views that are sort of contrary to the senior people who control what Dr. Gupta calls cartels. And it’s not like there’s one cartel for all of science. So, each sort of subsets of infectious disease technology will have this group of people. And it’s not just in medicine and public health, it’s in other areas also."

Much more at link above…