October 12, 2007
Report Details Influence of Drug Makers on Research
Drug companies play a far bigger role than previously suspected in managing how academics publish articles in medical journals, charges Sergio Sismondo, an associate professor of philosophy and sociology at Queen's University, in Canada.
In a recent essay in PLoS Medicine, published by the Public Library of Science, Mr. Sismondo says that "a substantial percentage of medical-journal articles (in addition to meeting presentations and other forms of publication …) are
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