We all know why this immoral act is being done, and it was not unexpected. The saddest part of the episode is not the retraction. From my perspective, the saddest part is that the Editors know why this is being done and the Editorial Board knows why this is being done, and they are going along with it. This is true for all the Covid-19 v…
We all know why this immoral act is being done, and it was not unexpected. The saddest part of the episode is not the retraction. From my perspective, the saddest part is that the Editors know why this is being done and the Editorial Board knows why this is being done, and they are going along with it. This is true for all the Covid-19 vaccine papers retracted. I don't know of one journal editor involved with one of these retractions or one EB member who has resigned in protest over these politically-motivated retractions. That is a severe indictment of our educational system. It is producing robots with zero morals and ethics who are willing to go along with these obscenities in order to maintain their editor/EB positions.
I can understand why someone would want to be a journal editor, even for a bottom-tier journal such as Cureus (Impact Factor 1.2). There is a feeling of accomplishment of being a person whose publication decisions have served to advance the state-of-the-art in a field of research. However, the editors/EB of these journals that allowed the political retractions to occur have essentially become water-carriers for Big Pharma. What kind of personal satisfaction does that provide? This action by the editors of Cureus is a sad indictment of how low the integrity of medical (un)professionals has sunk.
We all know why this immoral act is being done, and it was not unexpected. The saddest part of the episode is not the retraction. From my perspective, the saddest part is that the Editors know why this is being done and the Editorial Board knows why this is being done, and they are going along with it. This is true for all the Covid-19 vaccine papers retracted. I don't know of one journal editor involved with one of these retractions or one EB member who has resigned in protest over these politically-motivated retractions. That is a severe indictment of our educational system. It is producing robots with zero morals and ethics who are willing to go along with these obscenities in order to maintain their editor/EB positions.
I can understand why someone would want to be a journal editor, even for a bottom-tier journal such as Cureus (Impact Factor 1.2). There is a feeling of accomplishment of being a person whose publication decisions have served to advance the state-of-the-art in a field of research. However, the editors/EB of these journals that allowed the political retractions to occur have essentially become water-carriers for Big Pharma. What kind of personal satisfaction does that provide? This action by the editors of Cureus is a sad indictment of how low the integrity of medical (un)professionals has sunk.