Should disclosure rules be relaxed?

Two decades after agitating against conflicts of interest, the New England Journal of Medicine has now run a three-part series that seems to advocate relaxing disclosure standards, while in the rival BMJ three former NEJM editors object, Tara Haelle writes: "Why does all this matter to journalists? If NEJM does back away from their policies and other journals follow suit, it becomes more difficult for journalists to assess these commentaries and review articles."

June 30, 2015

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