An Improved Peer-Review System to Compensate for Scientific Misconduct in Health-Sensitive Topics

With this letter, we do ask the scientific community to take a clear position and make itself heard with a stentorian voice to protect public health from ethical misconduct. This renewal would lead not only to direct benefits to the research but also to the public image of the whole scientific world, thanks to a novel, more transparent, efficient, and effective procedure of academic publication. Alongside this, the goal is also to decrease the number of infodemic publications circulating in and out of the scientific community, especially if they concern health-sensitive topics like new drugs and vaccines.