The Comedy of Academic Journals:

I have been published in various places already, but here is my recent experience in the field of cardiovascular medicine:

There is no cure for Aortic Aneurysm. No surgical intervention works very long, in fact this is what the famous Dr. DeBakey (DeBaghi) died of.

My first reviewer had some valid requests, but we can't do it because we have other things to do and other people have already proven what they ask for. They also ask to prove a parameter through a litmus test, when the evidence for it is right in front of them in another form.

The second reviewer obviously didn't even read the paper. They claim that I claim that the plaques resolve themselves, which is never stated anywhere within the paper. They are either asleep at the wheel or yet another pawn of scientific disinformation. The other absurd thing they request is "citations" for a novel find.

Oh well. Dr. DeBakey is turning in his grave. If I had to, I would just put the paper online and claim, "All of it is true, but there are no peer reviewers."

Here it is, and I am the first to state it ever in the world: In Mice, Aortic Dissections heal themselves often, but they do not in humans. Whoever claims it again basically owes me credit for the assertion of the whole chain of discovery. ha!

As history has shown, the ancient pillars of science are not infallible, and no human is infallible in their assertions. The gloss or prestige of a journal is only so important as to have power, but there are plenty of retractions and corrections in high profile science.