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Article: Medical Journal Under the Microscope
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- June 4, 2002
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CHICAGO (AP) _ One of world's leading medical journals has put itself
and its competitors under the microscope with research showing that
published studies are sometimes misleading and frequently fail to
mention weaknesses.
Some problems can be traced to biases and conflicts of interest among
peer reviewers, who are outside scientists tapped by journal editors
to help decide whether a research paper should be published, according
to several articles in this week's Journal of the American Medical
Association.
Other problems originate in news releases some journals prepare to
call attention to what they believe are newsworthy studies. The releases
do not routinely ...