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Medical journals and the tobacco industry

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The BMJ has announced that it will no longer consider consider research funded by the tobacco industry, in whole or part, for publication. It is time, say the editors of the BMJ, Heart,
Thorax, and BMJ Open, “to cease supporting the now discredited notion that tobacco industry funded research is just like any other research”. They cite the increasing evidence that peer review and declaration of funding is not enough: funding can Continue reading →

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This entry was posted in Evidence, Health, Journal bytes, Public health, Science, Smoking and tagged BMJ, Cancer Research Campaign, Medical Journals, NEJM, Peer Review, PLoS Medicine, The Lancet, tobacco industry on October 16, 2013 by lowridan.

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