(THE COLLEGE FIX) – A recently launched medical journal that aims to curb and counter health and medical misinformation may actually stifle valid research and alternative methodologies, warn some scholars concerned about the new publication.
Rapid Reviews|Infectious Diseases, jointly launched Aug. 28 by the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health and MIT Press, is billed by the universities as a fight “against health disinformation.”
Its mission is “to prevent the dissemination of false or misleading scientific information and to accelerate the validation and diffusion of robust, impactful scientific findings through rapid peer review,” according to a UC Berkeley news release.
