PJ Media

Ditto with “moron”‘s comments. The NEJM may be the most recognized medical journal in the world, but it is hardly the most respected. It is highly recognized because it markets itself to the lay public and mass media, not just to medical personnel.

I, too, learned to take the agenda-driven NEJM with a huge grain of salt as a graduate student in the medical-related sciences. The other “well known” medical journal is the anecdote-driven “The Lancet”, which we commonly referred to as “the comic book of the medical field”.