August 16, 2006

Indeed, leading researchers from powerful and prestigious academic institutions routinely fail to disclose conflicts of interest to

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Lift Veil on Research Funding

August 1, 2006

Journals Must Exercise Their Authority as Gatekeepers by Vera Sharav If physicians can’t rely on the unbiased

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Journals Must Exercise Their Authority as Gatekeepers

July 23, 2006

"Leading medical journals seem to be having a difficult time disentangling themselves from the pharmaceutical and medical

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NYT Editorial: Our Conflicted Medical Journals

July 20, 2006

Serotonin Syndrome is another term for drug toxicity (poisoning): FDA described the life-threatening effects of Serotonin Syndrome:

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A Matter of Disclosure: Shame on JAMA editor / Shame on Harvard Scientists / FDA Adds SSRIWarnings

July 19, 2006

News reports about prominent academic scientists who failed to disclose their financial relationships with drug and medical

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Is this the perfect storm of corruption? ACNP journal

July 18, 2006

News reports about prominent academic scientists who failed to disclosetheir financial relationships with drug and medical device

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Is this the perfect storm of corruption? ACNP Journal Review VNS

July 13, 2006

In February, 2006, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a widely publicized article authored

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Associated Press: JAMA says it was misled by researchers

July 7, 2006

BMJ editor, Dr. Fiona Godlee, commenting on the drug industry’s stranglehold on the scientific medical literature–which has

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Can We Tame the Monster?

June 29, 2006

Though proponents claim that screening prevents suicide, no evidence supports such claims: “No major studies conclusively show

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Journalism vs. Promotion: TeenScreen–A Study in Contrasts UPI report compared to Washington Post

June 27, 2006

The published correction issued by the NEJM to Merck’s critical study of of its painkiller Vioxx, contradicts

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NEJM Vioxx Safety Correction / Consumers International Accuses Industry–Unscrupulous Marketing

June 15, 2006

The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) has not published a single letter to the editor regarding a

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Amer J Psychiatry Editor Blocks Scientific Debate

June 6, 2006

Blissfully unaware that she’s been fed junk science, Boston Globe reporter, Carrey Goldberg transcribes rubbish dictated by

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Intermittent Explosive Disorder-a parody

May 30, 2006

“Less and less information seems purely disinterested. You have to check everything out.”   Indeed! Professional medical

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Industry’s Role–NYT_Just how much ‘new research’ can we trust? Sunday Times

May 18, 2006

Abe Rosenthal wasn’t afraid to speak truth to power–or to step on the toes of the powerful,

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“Always be the hawk; never be the blackbird that sits on the wire” A.M. Rosenthal