The Cochrane Collaboration is a grassroots organisation founded in 1993 that publishes systematic reviews of healthcare interventions. It was highly successful in its early years but is now moribund. https://bit.ly/45LAvua. A commentator wrote about my article: “Devastating documentation of institutional capture through specific case studies. The pattern of rejecting high-quality systematic reviews while publishing politically convenient ones cuts to the heart of epistemic corruption in science. I've watched similar dynamics unfold in other "trusted" institutions where the need to protect reputation overrides commitment to evidence. The mammography screening censorship is particularly telling since the data has been public since 2001 yet Cochrane still rejected publication based on potential "firestorm" concerns.”
Can Cochrane’s new CEO save the sinking ship? Her decisions so far suggest she will go down with the ship. See my article: https://bit.ly/45LAvua. The CEO, psychiatrist Karla Soares-Weiser, has had leading roles in Cochrane since 2015 but every time she was involved with an important matter, she chose the wrong option. She focussed on what she thought was most beneficial for the Cochrane club even though her decisions were harmful for Cochrane’s trustworthiness and the users of Cochrane.
She failed in relation to psychiatry, mammography screening, face masks, vaccines (DTP, HPV and Covid), allowed authors to be funded by the company whose product is under review, and did not to issue an apology for Cochrane’s serious defamation and lies related to one of its best-known scientists whom they expelled for no good reason whatsoever after a show trial.
A CEO that refuses to see the iceberg, accepts that guild and financial interests are more important than getting the science right, and allows publication of politically expedient but seriously misleading Cochrane reviews and press releases while preventing high-quality, unbiased reviews from being published, or undermine them publicly without even consulting the authors, cannot save the sinking ship
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