All are backed up by one or more clinical studies published in respectable journals.
Something similar was true of Mr. Buckley, who founded National Review in 1955, partly because he could not place his work in the respectable journals of the day, so many of them edited by liberals repelled by this provocateur.
As the papers in ersatz journals multiply, so do those papers published in perfectly legitimate and respectable journals, creating their own complications for the research community.
Furthermore, while my publication record is solid—I have a reasonable number of publications in very respectable journals, including several first-author publications none of my papers are in Cell, Nature, or Science.
Food industries buy scientific research published in respectable journals because it is one of their most effective marketing tools.
The idea that the data underlying a study should be available for validation of its conclusions is not unreasonable and is, indeed, a condition of submission for most respectable journals.
