Joe Rogan just exposed medicine's dirtiest secret: "peer reviewers" never see the data.
ROGAN: "if it's peer-reviewed, the scientists do not get to look at the actual data... that's one of the reasons that they can say crazy things like it's 100% effective."
And the proof? Vioxx. Merck removed three heart attacks from a Vioxx publication, the New England Journal published it anyway, and the drug is estimated to have killed 120,000 people.
Here's how the rest of the machine works. 🧵
A Midwestern Doctor
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