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Article: AMA seeks probe of journal editors' actions
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- March 30, 2009
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The American Medical Association is seeking an investigation of claims that editors of its leading medical journal threatened a whistleblower who pointed out a researcher's conflict of interest.
Editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association deny threatening a professor who raised concerns about a study author's financial ties to industry _ ties that were not disclosed when JAMA published the study last year. JAMA, like most leading medical journals, has a policy of noting a scientist's financial ties to companies whose drugs they are researching.
According to the Wall Street Journal, JAMA editors threatened to ban the professor from their journal and ruin his ...