JAMA Editors Try Attacking the Messenger

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Mon, 03/23/2009 - 12:50

Early this month, yet another story surfaced about allegations of undisclosed conflicts of interest affecting the author of a highly publicized clinical trial.

This story has now taken such an odd twist that it seems worth discussing in some detail. Let me first try to present some relevant facts, derived from published articles, mainly peer-reviewed, which do not seem to be in dispute, in chronologic order.

2005 - In a multi-author review article on mood disorders...

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