&gt; The BMJ “should carefully think about what it wants: to remain a top scientific medical journal, or to transition into a public-opinion publication that seeks to attain the highest ratings possible based on one-sided positions that are not carefully researched,” said Rafael Perez-Escamilla, an epidemiologist at Yale University. “They can’t have it both ways.”<p>It seems that the editor is crusading to get politics and commercial interests out of science. They can have it both ways in that sense: to remain on top and to attract attention to the corruption at the heart of the endeavor.