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Articles by Are Brean
Lucrative lies
- Are Brean
02.06.2025:
Vaccine refusal has become big business. There are fewer key players than we might think, and they are making good money. Vaccinated children are more than four times as likely to develop ADHD and autism as unvaccinated children. The website of the US organisation Children's Health Defense is rife...
When science is politicised
- Are Brean
26.03.2025:
The United States has long been a beacon of global medical research. However, the systematic politicisation and erosion of independent research threatens to extinguish that beacon. The United States is the world's undisputed leader when it comes to medical research. Seven of the world's ten most...
Hands off the watchdog
- Are Brean
15.01.2025:
The Norwegian government wants to merge the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board and the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision. This is a bad idea. The Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board (NHIB) was established in 2019. If the Norwegian government gets its way, this independent watchdog for...
From introduction to evaluation
- Are Brean
23.09.2024:
The intended increase in gold open access publishing has had various repercussions. One of the world's largest research funders will no longer provide support for this type of publishing. Scientific publishing remained almost unchanged for more than 350 years (1): the journals took care of quality...
Here come the predators!
- Are Brean
24.06.2024:
A tidal wave of predatory journals and fraudulent research is undermining trust in science. Now more than ever it pays to be critical, both as a reader and an author. In 2008, the library scientist Jeffrey Beall received an increasing number of emails from academic journals with an invitation to...
Changes to preserve our essence
- Are Brean
18.03.2024:
We have made changes to the printed version of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association in order to preserve the essence of the Journal. We believe this is important. The imminent death of printed publishing has been predicted since the dawn of the internet (1). In academic publishing...
Inspired by the UK
- Are Brean
16.01.2024:
Back in the day, Norway followed the UK's lead in building a robust public health service. Are we now also about to follow its lead in dismantling the health service? In Norway, we are rightfully proud of having one of the world's best public health services. The inspiration and model for such a...
Effective! Unprecedented! Innovative!
- Are Brean
10.10.2023:
Emotional, positive and seductive language is becoming more widespread in scientific publishing. It demands more of the reader. 'Nothing is more boring than reading a scientific article.' This quote is attributed to the Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick (1916–2004) (1). Most people who have struggled...