Thanks for the explanation and the interesting link.

Still, peer-review surely must be better than someone who grows corn, invents a company with a scientific name and tells you you should be eating corn instead of chicken.

So who do you believe?

My brother-in-law has published about 100 articles, and some of what he has pioneered in orthopedics are now being used all over the world. If he didn't publish, nobody else would know about them.

He started lengthening bones on deformed children, and now has new techniques for adult broken bones with cages, 3d printed parts, and so on. He's explained it all to me, along with pictures, and although I don't understand it all, I get enough to see the miracles that were not possible even 15 years ago.

But as you pointed out, there is good and bad in everything.

Bob