I haven't followed this at all, nor the fluvoxamine debate but the qualifications he demands are odd. Kirsch seems to get high off his own farts. None of the qualifications he demands have anything to do with the ability to interpret research data.
Although it can be abused, anonymous and independent peer review is important for people to point out discrepancies between the data results and the conclusions of a research project. It's pretty common for a researcher to claim something that the data simply does not support. Anonymous peer review doesn't really require a lot of expertise in a particular field, just the ability to understand statistics and the willingness to say "the data do not support your conclusions".
Social media following? Seriously? Apparently this guy slept through the last decade where any non-matrix science dissention was shadow banned.
I haven't followed this at all, nor the fluvoxamine debate but the qualifications he demands are odd. Kirsch seems to get high off his own farts. None of the qualifications he demands have anything to do with the ability to interpret research data.
Although it can be abused, anonymous and independent peer review is important for people to point out discrepancies between the data results and the conclusions of a research project. It's pretty common for a researcher to claim something that the data simply does not support. Anonymous peer review doesn't really require a lot of expertise in a particular field, just the ability to understand statistics and the willingness to say "the data do not support your conclusions".
Social media following? Seriously? Apparently this guy slept through the last decade where any non-matrix science dissention was shadow banned.