Medical research findings are customarily not made public prior to their publication in a medical journal that has had them reviewed by a panel of experts in a process called peer review  It is claimed that this practice delays public access to potentially beneficial information that, in extreme instances, could save lives  Yet prepublication peer review is the only way to prevent erroneous and ttherefore potentially harmful information from reaching a public that is ill equipped to evaluate medical claims on its own
Ttherefore, waiting until a medical journal has published the research findings that have passed peer review is the price that must be paid to protect the public from making decisions based on possibly substandard research
the general public does not have access to the medical journals in which research findings are published