Most Americans are impressed with peer-reviewed journals, although scientists in many fields and informed non-scientists are aware that the bloom is off the rose, and such journals are struggling for legitimacy. They have taken many body blows to their credibility, reputation, and subscription lists in recent years.

In 2011, the pharmaceutical company Bayer looked at 67 blockbuster drug discovery research findings published in prestigious journals and found that three-fourths of them were wrong!

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) ran research past other experts in the field and discovered that most of the reviewers failed to notice eight errors that had been deliberately inserted into articles. That is shocking, but it was even worse. The reviewers were told they were being tested. No scientist spotted more than five errors out of the 221 reviewers who responded. The average reviewer found two mistakes.

That’s two errors out of eight!

No wonder every health care system is collapsing with so many incompetents wearing white coats and dangling stethoscopes.

Peer-reviewed published articles in the once venerable Lancet asserted President Trump “provoked” the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6 and his “turbulent” legacy “imperils the health of Americans and the world.” Well, they did use the word health in the medical article.

Lancet promoted Biden as a “healthy” choice for America and, on May 16, 2020, published an editorial calling for Trump’s defeat in the 2020 Presidential election.

Considering the political, economic, educational, and social travesty in the United Kingdom, it might be better to use print space to solve that nation’s problems. Maybe the JAMA and the NEJM can solve America’s troubles.

Lancet published a “dehumanizing” and “sexist” article describing females as “bodies with vaginas” to appease the fanatics of the trans lobby. Critics called it “insulting and abusive” and a “misguided pursuit of woke points.” A few months earlier, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust told its staff to use terms like “birthing parents” and “human milk” rather than referring to “mothers” and “breast milk.”

Lancet, founded in 1823, is the most respected medical journal in the world but has recently become “woke” and politically correct. Maybe, it would be more in keeping with their purpose if they were honest, correct, and balanced—and dealt with health.

The Daily Mail of September 11, 2021, reported that Lancet, in their March 7, 2020 edition, published a letter to discredit the “conspiracy theory” that COVID was accidentally (or purposefully) leaked from the Wuhan Lab in China. Whether Covid-19 had man-made origins or leaked from the lab in Wuhan was effectively shut down by the letter. Twenty-seven authors signed the letter ridiculing man-made origins, and their prestige carried the day, calming the concerns of most people.

The Lancet’s assurance from the highly respected scientists “effectively ended all debate” about the origins of the global coronavirus pandemic. It was no more an issue. The Red Chinese were not guilty. While the COVID roots were not discovered, its origin was not in China, and it was for sure not a bioweapon.   The Lancet letter made that sure.

Well, not really.

The Daily Mail reported another London paper, the Daily Telegraph, revealed that 26 of the 27 scientists who signed the Lancet letter had a conflict of interest (COI) in making that case. All but one of the alleged unbiased authors “have links to its Chinese researchers, their colleagues or its benefactors, a new investigation has revealed.”

Say what! Peer-review is supposed to be honest, forthright, scholarly, unbiased, fair, truthful, balanced, etc.

The Lancet scientists were not unbiased since those 26 scientist-authors had a dog in that fight. The highly esteemed scientists convinced almost everyone that COVID did not leak (or was not leaked) from the Chinese lab, so don’t worry about COVID’s roots. Everyone can go back to watching politicized sports.

Now we know many Lancet authors cannot be trusted. They hid their Chinese connection that would indicate they had conflicts of interest when making conclusions. In my opinion, they are all disgraced scientists who can be bought by the Communist Chinese.

That’s not supposed to happen, not with real scientists.

So, the Lancet’s perceived respectability in the scientific community was enough to convince the non-thinkers that the Chinese are good guys who would not release a deadly virus upon the world to thin the population to a level that would satisfy the environmental fanatics. Nor was the leak accidental.

The impetus behind the infamous Lancet letter was Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, which channeled $600,000 of American tax dollars into controversial research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That was a grant from NIH and Dr. Anthony Fauci.  Yes, that Fauci.  Daszak declared no conflict of interest in the original letter but confessed in an addendum in a later issue of the journal. Since the scandal erupted, Daszak is no longer on the commission looking for the origins of COVID-19.

Daszak received more than $410,000 in annual compensation from EcoHealth and “related organizations” during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. However, his non-profit (EcoHealth) reportedly “received $39 million from the Pentagon and $123 million overall from different government agencies until last year.”

This seems to authenticate the I Timothy 6:10 warning that “the love of money is the root of all evil.” That was the “love” of money, not money itself.  If we follow the money, we will find the source of the evil.

I’m not convinced the virus was released as a bioweapon, although I wrote about that possibility here.  And it could be accurate, but what is definite is the virus was engineered in Red China. Maybe honest scientific investigators could determine whether it was accidental or purposeful, although the Communists are not cooperating with the investigation.

Wonder why?

Emails show Daszak and another scientist conspired (oops, can leftists conspire?) to conceal they were in bed with the Wuhan institute to “avoid looking self-serving.” The Mail reports Daszak told the scientist he would publish the letter in such a way that it doesn’t “link it back to our collaboration, so we maximise an independent voice.”

So much for their independent voice.

Some of the world’s top virologists had raised concerns earlier that the emerging SARS-CoV-2 virus had features that “(potentially) look engineered,” which is what many others have declared. However, Drs. Koopmans and Drosten were participants in a secretive teleconference held in February 2020 with White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, Daszak, and others involved in efforts to discredit the lab-leak theory.

Note they were not looking for the truth of what happened but conspiring to discredit one possibility that would reflect badly on China.

Wow, it only takes two to make a conspiracy! Is there a conspiracy consisting of corrupt federal health officials and corrupt politicians who will not permit the truth to be known about the origin of the Chinese coronavirus? Peer-reviewed articles can’t keep flawed studies out of major papers, but they can be deadly efficient at silencing heretical, i.e., unpopular, unapproved, and unprofitable views.

Conspiracy is one thing; competency is another. Another possibility is confirmation bias, a potential problem for everyone. Every person must be careful when seeking truth since everyone is susceptible to a confirmation bias, “the tendency to look for and see only evidence that confirms what they already believe.” One tends to see what he wants to see. He sees what he is looking for. He accepts error because it confirms his erroneous ideas.

Some of the 27 scientists “have since changed their stance with some calling for a full inquiry into the origins of Covid-19.” Just a little late. These guys are not the sharpest knives in the drawer because after Lancet published Daszak’s tardy COI, the other 26 did not reveal theirs. Lancet even asked if they would like to confess any conflict. No one did. However, some of them have backed away from the letter and are now calling for further investigation.

No, not the brightest guys or the most honorable guys in the room.

There are many examples in once-respected medical journals of failure to disclose and arrogantly acting as cheerleaders for the radical left on issues far from medicine or health.

The American Medical Association declared anyone who opposes transgender  mutilation of children is “dangerous”;  Fauci called U.S. gun violence a “public health issue”; The Lancet wrote, “Climate Response Must Break ‘Stranglehold of Fossil Fuels’”; New England Journal of Medicine recommended removing assignment of gender on birth certificates; the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association argued whiteness itself is a mental condition that leads white people to “hate” and “terrorize.”

Obviously, once-respected medical personnel and journals are lost in deep weeds.

I mentioned the above to support my contention that medical journals are only a little more reliable than National Enquirer or The Sun. But those papers, like all publications, must make a legitimate profit; however, the motive of a medical journal is not profit but public health. One must always consider the credentials of a writer since his motive may be bucks rather than facts.

Robbie Fox, the respected 20th-century editor of the Lancet who was no admirer of peer-review, wondered whether anybody would notice if he were to swap the piles marked “publish” and “reject.” Richard Smith, a former editor of the prestigious British Medical Journal, expressed his opinion of peer-review in his 2006 article, “Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals.”

Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), made the case that the problems with scientific research, especially concerning the pharmaceutical industry, go much deeper than peer review issues. In May 2000, she wrote an editorial in the NEJM that asked, “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?” She was concerned “about the increasingly blurry lines between academic institutions (and their research) and the pharmaceutical companies that pay the bills.”

In 2005, Angell wrote The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It, a book that Janet Maslin of The New York Times described as “a scorching indictment of drug companies and their research and business practices . . . tough, persuasive and troubling.”

Scientists, like those above willing to break with their peers, are more likely to be truth-tellers since few want to be considered odd, strange, or peculiar. In our day, it is obsolete to be absolute because skeptics refuse any authority and refuse to be held to a standard of behavior. The only absolute standard is the Bible, and every issue should be filtered through its many principles, thereby arriving at the truth. Yes, even in science.

I am suspicious, skeptical, and sickened of peer-reviewed journals and federal health officials who have long records of being truth deficient and are often flawed, false, fanatical, and fraudulent! I tend to believe the independent critics who are risking everything for what they know to be the truth.

It doesn’t take much intellectual candlepower to recognize these federal health officials and politicians as unhinged, unconcerned, and unaccountable dictators who scream in their loudest, authoritarian voice, “Take the shot. Put on a mask. Close your business. This is for your own good and for the nation.”

Similar commands still faintly echo from Tempelhofer Field in Berlin, where a little man with a small mustache and a bad haircut spoke to over a million mesmerized people.

Today, a little man named Fauci spouts silly medical bromides with neither a blush nor a snicker as he swaggers through Washington, like the jerk in Berlin.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 20 books, the most recent,  Reflections of a Lifetime Fundamentalist: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets! The eBook is available at Amazon.com for $4.99. Other titles at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don  Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog.  Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles and click here to support  his work with a donation.)

These facts are not disputed: China has been working on biological weapons for decades and has the “largest Level 4 Biohazard Lab in Asia, which studies directly into the world’s deadliest pathogens including SARS and coronavirus. In 2017, experts warned that a virus could escape the labs in Wuhan because of lax containment standards.” Did the deadly virus escape or was it released as the following information seems to indicate?

Be careful, future events may prove you jumped too quickly—in the wrong direction. We need to keep in mind that the Martians did not invade New Jersey in 1938, but Orson Welles did laugh all the way to the bank.

Did China purposefully release the coronavirus upon the world as a means of reducing their population or was it accidentally (and prematurely) released? One of my readers who is a highly placed, highly informed, highly principled, and highly active American wrote me recently saying that one of his Chinese acquaintances (in regular contact with residents in Wuhan) revealed to him that the coronavirus was designed by Chinese scientists as a “biological weapon” that was originally designed to drop over Hong Kong to kill off all the population and to “re-populate with Chinese Communist loyalists (that would exclude Christians.)”

He also said, and later confirmed, that the original whistleblower who exposed the coronavirus, Dr. Li WenLiang “was a Chinese Christian who exposed the plague (a scientist) who mysteriously died.”

By the way, the Chinese source of this accusation is also highly placed, highly informed, highly principled, and highly active and trains leaders in the underground, unregistered church in China. I do not know him but I do know of his impeccable reputation and his dedicated, deserving, and dangerous work with the underground evangelical churches in China.

I have read thousands of books, most of them were historical, philosophical, or theological; many thousands of articles and columns but today I read the most important, shocking, and prophetic speech of my life that supports the premise of this article! In December of 2005, elite officials of the Chinese government met in a large, garish room to hear a world-shaking diatribe by General Chi Haotian, the Vice-Chairman of China’s Military Commission.

His threats are being demonstrated throughout the world as you read this. Moreover, the General is still alive and in good standing in the Chinese government and his shocking speech has not been repudiated by the Communist government. British and American China-watchers, with fingers crossed, have declared the speech a forgery—without any proof.

General Chi began by referring to a national survey taken in China as to how the populace would respond to war. He was not speaking of a “normal” war when a few million die, but many millions die. More than 80% admitted that they would shoot women, children, and prisoners of war. He told the elites that the good times “had come to an end.” He wondered if the people would support the Party if China’s global development necessitated “massive deaths” in enemy countries. The survey gave them the support they wanted although Communist tyrants don’t usually ask the people what they will support.

But this was different, very different.

China is hugely overpopulated and must do something. The keyword is must. They are convinced they have no choice but to involve the whole world in their “global development.” They believe their backs are against the wall and they must push out across the world. After all, they have that right since, according to Chi, they did not originate in Africa (as most modern evolutionists teach) but they arose “independently in the land of China” and have roots going back “millions of years.”

They will expand to other lands whatever the cost in lives—Chinese and others.

Chi reminded them that they were at the peak of civilization during the Tang Dynasty that thrived from 618 to 907 A.D. because of their “natural superiority.” He told them their “natural superiority” would be at its peak again.

He told them their ancestors left them with “the two most essential heritages, which are atheism and great unity,” so based on that foundation they are ready to claim their heritage and conquer the world. The Chinese must look to other nations because the “pressing issue facing us is living space.” He told them that most wars in history were fought because of the need for space.

The General then did an unusual thing: he spoke of how bad things were in China! That seldom happens without a one-way trip to the local re-education camp or a trip to the bang-bang wall. He admitted, “Our resources are in very short supply. The environment is severely polluted, especially that of soil, water, and air. Not only our ability to sustain and develop our race, but even its survival is gravely threatened.…Anybody who has been to Western countries knows that their living space is much better than ours. They have forests alongside the highways, while we hardly have any trees by our streets. Their sky is often blue with white clouds, while our sky is covered with a layer of dark haze. Their tap water is clean enough for drinking, while even our ground water is so polluted that it can’t be drunk without filtering. They have few people in the streets, and two or three people can occupy a small residential building; in contrast our streets are always crawling with people, and several people have to share one room.”

Translation: We gotta do something, fast.

He confessed, “We are now relying on imports to sustain our nation” so Chinese leaders “must lead the Chinese people outside of China.” Snatching some land from Taiwan or some other nation would not be enough but he lifted his eyes and saw Australia, Canada, and America. Those are places where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can colonize thereby removing millions from their swarming cities. He asserted, “United States, Canada and Australia have the vast land to serve our need for mass colonization.” He went on to say, the Chinese were “entitled” to the foreign lands.

Chi made it very clear that China does not want to destroy America, only colonize it with millions of their people. So, we don’t have to worry about bombs, only bugs. He admitted, “Only by using special means to ‘clean up’ America will we be able to lead the Chinese people there. Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves.” Over half of American citizens must be left alive to serve the advanced Chinese that will live in the former America.

The general was overcome with a dark foreboding: “Biological weapons are unprecedented in their ruthlessness, but if the Americans do not die then the Chinese have to die. If the Chinese people are strapped to the present land, a total societal collapse is bound to take place. …This yellow land has reached the limit of its capacity. One day, who knows how soon it will come, the great collapse will occur any time and more than half of the population will have to go.”

General Chi characterized the Chinese as “revolutionary humanitarians” who did not wish millions of Americans to die but if there is a choice, it should be Americans, not Chinese. He closed saying, “Marxism pointed out that violence is the midwife for the birth of the new society. Therefore war is the midwife for the birth of China’s century.”

And war it is, although biological war. In Wuhan, the birthplace of the coronavirus is located the largest Level 4 Biohazard Lab in Asia. Did the virus escape as has happened before? Was it released by Chinese agents? Was it accidentally released?

Whatever, the virus is loose on the world and is lashing the face of more than 140 nations at this moment and unlike bombs, bullets, and battalions, the coronavirus has no return address that exposes its origination in China.

Keep in mind that the speech may be bogus; however, with China’s history of genocide for centuries and the hatred by China’s leaders as represented by the CCP, the speech could be false at the same time they are actually planning to implement its general proposals!

China does have a biological lab in Wuhan but it is difficult to focus on a snowflake during a blizzard.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)