{"id":23021,"date":"2023-12-10T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T10:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=23021"},"modified":"2023-12-22T10:01:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T08:01:23","slug":"allergy-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2023\/12\/allergy-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Allergy nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Harris in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Rigor-Mortis-Science-Worthless-Billions\/dp\/154164414X\/ref=asc_df_154164414X\/\">Rigor Mortis<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 14\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote><p>It was one of those things that everybody knew but was too polite to say. Each year about a million biomedical studies are published in the scientific literature. And many of them are simply wrong. Set aside the voice-of-God prose, the fancy statistics, and the peer review process, which is supposed to weed out the weak and errant. Lots of this stuff just doesn\u2019t stand up to scrutiny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t like the aggressive posts of <a href=\"https:\/\/forbetterscience.com\/2021\/04\/07\/prof-jean-busquets-sauerkraut-therapy\/\">forbetterscience.com<\/a>, Schneider is certainly right about the incredible COVID-19 papers of Bousquet, Zuberbier and Akdis ( for example the recent papers in <a href=\"https:\/\/ctajournal.biomedcentral.com\/\"><span class=\"c-journal-title__text \">Clinical and Translational Allergy<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doi.org\/10.1111\/all.14549\">Allergy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/369\/bmj.m1395\/rapid-responses\">BMJ<\/a> which are all not even mentioned in their combined 38 entries over at <a href=\"https:\/\/pubpeer.com\/search?q=+Bousquet+OR+Zuberbier+OR+Akdis\">PubPeer)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is proposed that fermented cabbage is a proof\u2010of\u2010concept of dietary manipulations that may enhance Nrf2\u2010associated antioxidant effects, helpful in mitigating COVID\u201019 severity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The failure can be easily explained by an editor publishing his own papers in his own journal &#8211; apparently without proper peer review in 6 days if we look at the timeline at &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doi.org\/10.1111\/all.14549\">Allergy<\/a>&#8220;. I am really ashamed having published <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=wjst+AND+allergy%5Bso%5D\">more than a dozen paper<\/a> also in this journal.<\/p>\n<p>Allergy research is playing in the bottom science league for the last decades &#8211; the &#8220;Sauerkraut&#8221; story\u00a0 basically runs together with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Water_memory\">water memory research<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/iid3.378\">farming myth<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Harris in &#8220;Rigor Mortis&#8221; It was one of those things that everybody knew but was too polite to say. Each year about a million biomedical studies are published in the scientific literature. And many of them are simply wrong. Set aside the voice-of-God prose, the fancy statistics, and the peer review process, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2023\/12\/allergy-nonsense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Allergy nonsense<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[4254,3508,4829,4828],"class_list":["post-23021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","category-joke-fun","tag-aria-group","tag-akdis","tag-bousquet","tag-zuberbier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23021"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23084,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23021\/revisions\/23084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}