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Suzuki: Editorial Freedom For Science Journals ‘Essential’
“Depending on your point of view, what's been going on at the Canadian Medical Association Journal — Canada's leading medical journal — is either a strange squabble between the academic elite and their bosses, or a tense drama about freedom of the press and the role that science plays in the media.
Sign me up for the latter.”
You Heard It Here At Red Flags First: Questions On The Prion-Only Hypothesis Of Tses
A recent research report published in the Journal of Pathology questions the prion-only hypothesis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). TSE diseases include Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle (mad cow disease), scrapie in sheep, and Chronic Wasting Disease in elk and deer. Abnormally misfolded prion proteins are considered to be the transmissible agents in TSEs. A Nobel Prize was awarded for this idea. The Jeffrey et al. study points out flaws in the prion-only hypothesis. It concerns us that there was very little coverage by the lay press and that this very important paper was only described on a few medically related web sites.
