July 3, 2026
You’ve probably heard someone end an argument with the words: “A new study found that…” As if that settles it.
It doesn’t.
Some of the sharpest warnings about published medical research haven’t come from outsiders or cranks. They’ve come from the editors of the world’s leading journals — the people who built the system and know exactly where the cracks are.
And there are a ton of cracks.
In this video I react to a short clip from Emily Kaplan, co-founder of the Broken Science Initiative, and then make the case for why a published study is the start of the conversation, not the end of it.