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Article: Medical literature, made to order
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- Canadian Medical Association. Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Many publishers of scientific journals have divisions that produce customized publications for drug companies, and some experts in medical publishing standards say it's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish science from marketing.
"The whole area of the pharmaceutical relationship with journals in this sort of gray literature is not really well spelled out, mainly because it's often not clear where editorial responsibility lies," says Dr. Virginia Barbour, a PLoS Medicine editor and secretary of the Committee on Publication Ethics, a United Kingdom-based charitable organization whose membership is comprised primarily of the editors-in-chief of scientific journals.
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