08/17/2026
Below are excerpts from a report by Peter Gold
Science advances through challenge, criticism, replication, and debate. No scientific paper should be immune from scrutiny. But scrutiny is not the same thing as censorship, and disagreement with a study’s findings is not a legitimate reason to erase it from the scientific record.
Over the past several years, a troubling pattern has emerged in the research on homeopathy, the 230-year-old system of alternative medicine. Multiple peer-reviewed studies, published in reputable journals and surviving the standard editorial and peer-review process, have later been targeted for retraction years after publication. In many cases, the stated reasons for retraction did not involve fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, or evidence of scientific misconduct. Instead, the papers appeared to be withdrawn because their findings challenged prevailing assumptions about homeopathy.
Below are 2 prominent cases which illustrate the problem.
Continued: https://www.iwholehealth.com/blog/troubling-censorship-of-alternative-medicine/
