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Journals are very unlikely to publish this kind of things, because of massive conflicts of interests. Look at the Lancet.

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What conflicts of interest? Big companies? The nations they are based in? None of that stopped, for example, the story about Volkswagen's Diesel fraud, or Boeing's troubles with the 757-MAX from finding a lot reputable publishers willing to print the story.

737, not 757

Conflicts on trying to appear politically neutral for PR pieces while 1) they are not (because research funding sources, public relationships etc), 2) it is not possible, so better off avoiding certain topics all together.

I still have faith in preprint servers though. Or self-publishing in the scientific writing form, instead of unorganized blog rant.

Lancet sucked hard, yes, I lost every confidence in them.

It's not like it was their first blunder, either. It's the same editor that needed more than a decade to retract Wakefield's fraudulent "vaccines cause autism" paper. He's very much an activist using the journal to further his political views [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Horton_(editor)

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