Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15342

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Publication type: news

Nonprofit Hits JAMA Editors, Urges Inquiry
The Wall Street Journal 2009 Mar 27
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123810131860651487.html

Full text:

A nonprofit group that monitors industry links to medical research called for the suspension of the top two editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and an investigation into allegations that they threatened a researcher who criticized a study published in the journal.

The Alliance for Human Research Protection, which is often critical of industry-academic ties, made the requests in a letter it sent Wednesday to the AMA …