
Colin Wright Convinced a $1.8 Billion Institution to Fix Science | Ep. 34
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The peer review system that governs scientific publishing was built to be an immune system — a self-correcting mechanism to keep bad science from becoming policy. It isn't working. In fields captured by ideology, particularly gender medicine, the correction mechanism has been reversed: papers that confirm the approved narrative sail through, while letters to the editor challenging them are ghosted, buried in endless limbo, or sent back to the same reviewers who approved the original paper. Dissent doesn't get published. It disappears. And in the absence of peer-reviewed counter-evidence, judges, policymakers, and medical boards treat the silence as consensus. Colin Wright has been fighting…