Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3328

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Publication type: Journal Article

Burley DM.
Should a drug company employee edit a medical journal?
Lancet 1986; 1:(801):

Abstract:

Employees of pharmaceutical companies should be able to be editors of medical journals. The safeguard against bias is professional integrity.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/editorial freedom/publication bias/conflict of interest/industry perspective/ industrial physicians/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: MEDICAL JOURNAL EDITORSHIP