Reliability of Medical Journals

Bizzy Blog notes a warning from an American Cancer Society Professor at Harvard Medical School:

…doctors should take all studies published in “prominent medical journals” with “skeptical caution.”

Read it in conjunction with this BizzyBlog post from December 17, 2005: What Does “Peer Review” Mean? (Hint: Diddly squat.)



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