Insiders Admit What Your Doctor Never Will: Modern Medicine Is a Fraud

It’s worse than you think.

Dr. Wojak, M.D. May 20, 2025 In a sane world, widespread fraud, rampant conflicts of interest, the corrupt peer review system, and the replication crisis would be enough to convince anyone that medical science is fundamentally untrustworthy. I break these issues down in detail in this article. But most people aren’t persuaded by logic or evidence. They’d rather let perceived experts dictate their beliefs for them—especially in medicine, where appeals to authority routinely crowd out independent judgment. The Emperor Admits He Has No Clothes What follows is a compilation of damning admissions from some of the most authoritative figures in medical science—top editors of the world’s most authoritative medical journals: The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, The BMJ, JAMA, and more. Short of study authors confessing outright fraud in their own work, these are the most credible admissions you’ll ever hear. Their statements expose a system corrupted by profit, conflicts of interest, and institutional decay—confirming what the data already shows: modern medicine is deeply compromised, most of the published research is junk, and your doctor cannot be trusted to know the difference. Your Doctor Is a Fraud Nearly everything doctors do—what they learn in medical school, what guidelines they follow, what drugs they prescribe, what procedures they perform—is based on research published in medical journals. The entire medical system is downstream from that literature. And doctors don’t verify this research themselves. They simply trust it. But here you have the editors-in-chief of the world’s most prestigious medical journals unequivocally admitting that the journals are corrupt and the research cannot be trusted. In other words, the most authoritative figures in medical science admit that the medical system is a sham and your doctor is a fraud. Doctor Junkies If you still have faith in doctors after this, it isn’t just willful ignorance—it’s profoundly self-destructive, if not outright suicidal. The Admissions First up is Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, where she was an editor from 1979 through 2000. She’s also a physician and currently a Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The New York Review of Books, “Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption”, 15 January 2009 Next is Richard Horton, a physician who has been the editor-in-chief of The Lancet since 1995. He is also an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, and the University of Oslo. The Lancet, “What is medicine’s 5 sigma?”, 11 April 2015 The Medical Journal of Australia, “Genetically modified food: Consternation, confusion, and crack-up”, 2000 The New York Review of Books, “The Dawn of McScience”, 11 March 2004 Arnold Relman was the longtime editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. He was also a physician and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He served as editor of NEJM from 1977 to 1991 and was the only person to have been president of the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Association of American Physicians. BMJ, “Who pays for the pizza? Redefining the relationships between doctors and drug companies. 1: Entanglement”, 2 May 2003 Drummond Rennie is a physician who has served as deputy editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association since 1986. He was previously deputy editor of The New England Journal of Medicine and is currently an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Journal of Law and Policy, “When evidence isn’t: trials, drug companies and the FDA”, July 2007 Richard Smith is a physician who served as editor-in-chief the British Medical Journal and chief executive of the BMJ Group from 1991 to 2004. He is currently director of the UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative at Emory University and chair of the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee. He is also an honorary professor at Imperial College London and the University of Warwick, and a founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. PLoS Medicine, “Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies”, 17 May 2005 Fiona Godlee is a physician and former editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal, where she served from 2005 to 2021. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and holds honorary positions at the Netherlands School for Primary Care Research and the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Public Health. CBC News, “BMJ editor Fiona Godlee takes on corruption in science”, 19 April 2016 Doug Altman was a professor at the University of Oxford and founding director of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine. He was a leading expert in medical research methodology and statistical analysis. Altman also served as chief statistical advisor to the British Medical Journal and was editor-in-chief of the journal Trials. He was a Fellow of both the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Statistical Society. BMJ, “The scandal of poor medical research”, 29 January 1994 John Ioannidis is a physician and professor at Stanford University with appointments in Medicine, Epidemiology, and Statistics. Formerly chairman of the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the University of Ioannina School of Medicine, he is a leading expert on research reliability and transparency. One of the most cited researchers in the world, he holds an h-index of 239 (Google Scholar, 2023). Ioannidis has served on the editorial boards of over twenty journals, including JAMA, The Lancet, and JNCI, and was editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Clinical Investigation. PLoS Medicine, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”, 30 August 2005 The Atlantic, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science”, November 2010 The Atlantic, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science”, November 2010 The Atlantic, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science”, November 2010 Peter Gøtzsche is a physician, co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, and former head of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, which he led from 1993 to 2018. Peter C. Gøtzsche, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare, 2013 Peter C. Gøtzsche, Death of a Whistleblower and Cochrane’s Moral Collapse, CrossFit Health presentation, 8 June 2019 Final Thoughts You shouldn’t need establishment voices to think critically. But if that’s what it takes to break someone out of their trance, so be it. These insiders had little to gain and much to lose by making these admissions. It’s easy to defend a system that handsomely rewards you—much harder to publicly denounce the very machine you’ve spent your career supporting. If you’re still clinging to the belief that “science is self-correcting,” or that “peer review ensures quality,” or that “your doctor’s recommendations are grounded in solid science”—these quotes should shatter that illusion. For those curious beyond mere appeals to authority—and who want to know in more detail how so much of modern medicine is built on fraud and unreproducible junk—read my full breakdown in the article below. Medical Journals Are Corrupt and the Research Is Mostly Junk Dr. Wojak, M.D. · May 7 Even the top medical journals are little more than industry mouthpieces, churning out mostly junk. Believing otherwise would be like trusting cigarette ads from the 1950s.