What to do about medical journal authors' conflicts of interest?
The Wall Street Journal discusses how medical journals are dealing with the fallout of several scandals related to the publication of journal articles without revealing the ties authors had with companies who would benefit from the findings (and their publication).We posted about the latest occurrence of this phenomenon (from the journal Neuropsychopharmacology) the other day. Now, we're not naive. We expect hack PR-oriented pieces when we read the trade press. But in a peer-reviewed journal? It's shameful.
The Journal cites scholars who recommend some type of sanction for authors who don't reveal the conflicts of interest they have. That's fine, but beyond that, how about journals carefully scrutinizing whether they should publish research from conflicted sources? How does that sound?
newspapers, media, errors, medicine
posted by Unknown @ 7/21/2006 02:37:00 PM
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