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Journal bias or author bias?
1Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of New South Wales, PO Box 906, Caringbah, NSW, 2229, Australia,. ianharris@unsw.edu.au.
Abstract:
I read with interest the comment by Mark Wilson in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics regarding bias and conflicts of interest in medical journals. Wilson targets one journal (the New England Journal of Medicine: NEJM) and one particular "scandal" to make his point that journals' decisions on publication are biased by commercial conflicts of interest (CoIs). It is interesting that he chooses the NEJM which, by his own admission, had one of the strictest CoI policies and had published widely on this topic. The feeling is that if the NEJM can be guilty, they can all be guilty.
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