# Groupthink and conflicted interests

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Podcast: [Dr. John Campbell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784)
Published: 2026-06-23T07:30:00+00:00
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Amid Growing Evidence of Conflicts of Interest and Obdurate Groupthink in Medical Journals, Researchers Must Entertain Contrarian Ideas https://www.cureus.com/articles/336128-amid-growing-evidence-of-conflicts-of-interest-and-obdurate-groupthink-in-medical-journals-researchers-must-entertain-contrarian-ideas#!/ Mainstream medicine, like other academic fields, is shaped by prevailing paradigms and the dominant narratives they create. Over the past half-century, these paradigms have increasingly reflected the growing commercial influence of the pharmaceutical industry. Dominant narratives are closely tied to groupthink, to which medical journals are often subject. In addition, more “prestigious” medical journals tend to have further financial conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry. These dynamics limit scientific progress by suppressing awareness of the iatrogenic aspects of industry products, and the benefits of alternative non-patentable and unpatentable medical products and therapeutic interventions. Journals need to adopt a more open policy to manuscripts that encompass contrarian perspectives to dominant narratives while still adhering to time-tested scientific values and methods. Thomas Kuhn (1962) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo13179781.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=transaction Scientific endeavour is subject to “paradigms” that restrict what ideas are considered valid Scientists and the peer-reviewed literature, influenced by groupthink processes as by dispassionate rationality. Science v “The Science” Groupthink theories can be vociferously held and enforced with brutal censorship, e.g. Nicolaus Copernicus (c, 1500) Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (c, 1860) Dismissed due to conflicts of interest. Considered a misinformation…

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