I want to point you to the results of a study released on Monday, which found that 25 out of 32 highly paid consultants to medical device companies in 2007 failed to reveal their financial connections to industry in journal articles the following year. The study found that scientists and doctors who had each been paid “at least $1 million in 2007” failed to disclose that they had received that money when publishing research in 2008. You can read the New York Times article describing the study here: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/business/14devices.html?_r=1.
The Times has a marvelous quote from Dr. Marcia Angell, the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, widely considered the most prominent of all medical journals. Dr. Angell said the study “is one more indication of the widespread corruption of the medical profession by industry money.” Dr. Angell said it was “an ingenious study, with unsurprising results.”
This is [part of] what I’ve been saying…