Every doctor knows that a gagging patient is a sick patient.
But apparently the American Medical Association believes gagging medical research is just dandy when it serves the AMA agenda at the expense of public health. The best argument for this action is that new medical knowledge might better serve the public if initially released through a bona fide journal so that doctors could allay and diffuse widespread excessive public hopes and worries. In reality, however, JAMA actually breaks its own rule by pre-releasing articles to the media days or sometimes weeks before physicians receive and have time to read them. But let's take a look at the selection process. And yet their own editorial policy prohibits that disclosure.