Healthy Skepticism Library item: 19815

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Publication type: Magazine

All above board
New Scientist 2004 Mar 6
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18124370.100-all-above-board.html

Full text:

DOES science need cleaning up? Some people think so. A panel convened by the US government’s National Institutes of Health is looking into tighter rules on collaborations between NIH scientists and outside companies. The move follows an article in the Los Angeles Times in December which alleged that NIH researchers had been collecting fees and stock options without publicly disclosing the ties to the companies concerned.

More recently in the UK, Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who first proposed a link between autism and the MMR vaccine, has faced charges that he failed to disclose a possible financial conflict of interest when he submitted the 1998 paper that triggered the scare. And last week, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which represents scores of leading medical journals, released summaries of cases brought to its attention in 2003. These included researchers submitting unethical or dubious research for peer review, and even attempts …