Deconstructing Plaintiffs' Peer-Reviewed Scientific Literature

Although peer-reviewed scientific evidence is central to most mass tort and product liability litigations, peer review is not foolproof and the fact that an article has been peer reviewed does not guarantee high quality or even scientific accuracy.

As an editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association explained, there is "no study too fragmented, no hypothesis too trivial, no literature too biased or too egotistical, no design too warped, no methodology too bungled, no presentation of results too inaccurate, too obscure, and too contradictory, no analysis too self-serving, no argument too circular, no conclusions too trifling or too unjustified, and no grammar and syntax too offensive for a paper to end up in print."