As Editor-at-Large for Medscape, Dr. Lundberg delivers to readers his informed perspective on up-to-the minute issues affecting healthcare and the practice of medicine. In addition to his work with Medscape, he serves as Editor-in-Chief at Cancer Commons, as President and Chair of the Board of Directors of The Lundberg Institute, and as a clinical professor of pathology at Northwestern University. Dr. Lundberg has more than 30 years' combined experience as Editor-in-Chief of
George, the key issue is how the “gold standard clinical validations” are handled. It has been very clearly demonstrated, even these “gold standard randomized controlled” trials lack transparency, and replicable reproducible results. Cherry-picking data to fit preordained narratives is the norm rather than the exception. This is why we have found overwhelming majority (~90%) of peer reviewed publications are flawed, severely biased, outright fraudulent, and untrustworthy. There is a fundamental need to reform how people use data with integrity, objectivity, without corrupt industry standard “pay to play” practices which have destroyed the credibility of the American Medical Industrial Complex and it’s academic “key opinion leaders” sitting in the Ivory Tower. We need a new system of “zero trusted” data infrastructure to ensure that the data handlers are honest, objective, inclusive of dissenting views, counter-narratives, acting with full transparency and accountability. Otherwise, the celebrity endorsed, expert-opinion based, and the reactionary unaccountable late-stage-sickness-seeking, high costs-imaging-testing/hospital-admissions/procedures/devicese/profit-driven legacy 19th Century Medicine is unaviodably on its death bed. We must restore peoples faith and trust again in the process of medicine and how we do science in medicine. We must establish a patient-centric, trustworthy "100% evidence-based practice of cost-conscious responsible early detection, early warning, proactive accountable primary and secondary preventive medicine for the future generations for the sake of our own legacy.
George, the key issue is how the “gold standard clinical validations” are handled. It has been very clearly demonstrated, even these “gold standard randomized controlled” trials lack transparency, and replicable reproducible results. Cherry-picking data to fit preordained narratives is the norm rather than the exception. This is why we have found overwhelming majority (~90%) of peer reviewed publications are flawed, severely biased, outright fraudulent, and untrustworthy. There is a fundamental need to reform how people use data with integrity, objectivity, without corrupt industry standard “pay to play” practices which have destroyed the credibility of the American Medical Industrial Complex and it’s academic “key opinion leaders” sitting in the Ivory Tower. We need a new system of “zero trusted” data infrastructure to ensure that the data handlers are honest, objective, inclusive of dissenting views, counter-narratives, acting with full transparency and accountability. Otherwise, the celebrity endorsed, expert-opinion based, and the reactionary unaccountable late-stage-sickness-seeking, high costs-imaging-testing/hospital-admissions/procedures/devicese/profit-driven legacy 19th Century Medicine is unaviodably on its death bed. We must restore peoples faith and trust again in the process of medicine and how we do science in medicine. We must establish a patient-centric, trustworthy "100% evidence-based practice of cost-conscious responsible early detection, early warning, proactive accountable primary and secondary preventive medicine for the future generations for the sake of our own legacy.