[1][2][3][4][5] The editor-in-chief is John Oller, a former linguistics professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette who published a book falsely linking vaccines to autism in 2009.

[6][4] Its senior editor, Christopher Shaw, is a professor at the University of British Columbia's Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences department who has promoted scare stories about vaccines.

[6] Its associate editors are Russell Blaylock, a former neurosurgeon who has baselessly claimed that wearing face masks helps SARS-CoV-2 enter the brain,[7] and anti-vaccine activists Stephanie Seneff and Brian Hooker.

[10] In October 2023, the journal published a paper baselessly implying that Pfizer had knowingly avoided reporting deaths that happened during clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine.

He described a paper published in the journal claiming that COVID-19 vaccines contain nanobots as "a case study on how to spot disinformation", and said its content was "scientific gibberish with no basis in actual biology or the scientific method" and "relatively amateurish gibberish... that a reasonable person with a high-school level biology education should be able to easily debunk.