Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15357

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Publication type: news

Medical Journal Decries Public Airing of Conflicts
The Wall Street Journal 2009 Mar 22
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123776823117709555.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

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The Journal of the American Medical Association, one of the world’s most influential medical journals, says it is instituting a new policy for how it handles complaints about study authors who fail to disclose they have received payments from drug companies or others that pose a conflict: It will instruct anyone filing a complaint to remain silent about the allegation until the journal investigates the charge.

The unusual order drew criticism from editors at other journals and fuels a debate about the role of medical journals in policing financial conflicts of researchers. It comes after JAMA was criticized for taking …