NEJM Vioxx Safety Correction / Consumers International Accuses Industry–Unscrupulous Marketing
Once again, the New England Journal of Medicine (July 13, 2006) has had to eat crow after it published false and misleading clinical trial findings.
Amer J Psychiatry Editor Blocks Scientific Debate
Medical journals are supposed to be vehicles for scientific give and take–not so, evidently, in journals of the American Psychiatric Association.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder-a parody
It is difficult to believe this latest announcement laying claim to a new "under treated" psychiatric disorder–Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) is not a parody !!
Industry’s Role–NYT_Just how much ‘new research’ can we trust? Sunday Times
“There is a crisis of credibility in medicine and science,” says Dr Joseph Sonnabend who, as a former virologist for the Medical Research Council and a retired Aids physician, has watched the basis for public confidence decline.
“Always be the hawk; never be the blackbird that sits on the wire” A.M. Rosenthal
A.M. (Abe) Rosenthal, hard-edged legendary execlutive editor of The New York Times, died. He is credited with transforming the paper from its genteel "white glove" approach of reporting the news which avoided offending the establishment.
Bitter Pill: NEJM Waited 5 Years to Report Missing Data from published Vioxx Study_WSJ
A documented report by David Armstrong of The Wall Street Journal (below) shatters the last glimmer of illusion about The New England Journal of Medicine as a bastion of scientific and moral integrity.
Science’s Gatekeepers, a Credibility Gap_Dr. Lawrence Altman,
"Virtually every major scientific and medical journal has been humbled recently by publishing findings that are later discredited." NYT
Scientific Misconduct: Cleaning Up the Paper Trail_SCIENCE
The APRIL 7, 2006 issue of SCIENCE Magazine contains one of the most important articles that tackles research fraud.
Reporters Find Science Journals Harder to Trust, but Not Easy to Verify–NY Times
"My antennae are definitely up since the whole thing unfolded," acknowledged Rob Stein, science reporter of The Washington Post.
Brain Images–What Do They Mean?
Benedict Carey of The New York Times reports with a degree of healthy skepticism about the latest scientific hoopla: Neuroscientists’ infatuation with brain imaging techniques.
Scientific integrity: ?Truth? versus method
"This is a critical moment: if the system of peer-review is not any longer able to guarantee the reliability of scientific research, this means that science has lost its way."
NIMH-funded antidepression drug efficacy / safety studies_What do they prove?
Two studies purporting to report “new encouraging” findings about the efficacy and safety of antidepressants—as tested in the “real world”—were published on Sunday by The American Journal of Psychiatry with an accompanying editorial by Dr. Thomas Insel, director of these studies’ funding agency, the National Institute of Mental Health.