September 26, 2003

'Science' and 'Nature' Accused of Conflicts of Interest; Scholarly Journals Take Up Gambling

By LILA GUTERMAN and DAVID GLENN

CONFLICT RESOLUTION: How do leading basic-science journals respond to charges that they allow some authors to keep mum about their conflicts of interest? In the cases of Nature and Science, very differently indeed.

Since October 2001, Nature has required scientists who submit primary-research papers to choose one of three disclosure options: reveal their financial interests, state that they have no competing interests, or choose not to make any financial disclosure. Their choices are

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