The productive collaboration between the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today has produced another strong story on conflicts...
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The productive collaboration between the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today has produced another strong story on conflicts of interest in medicine.
The latest story comes out of a Senate investigation prompted in part by the Journal Sentinel's earlier stories by John Fauber, who wrote this one, too.
Here's the lede:
Medtronic marketing employees were secretly involved in drafting and editing favorable medical journal articles about the company's lucrative back surgery product while the company paid millions to the surgeons whose names lent weight to the studies, documents from a U.S. Senate investigation reveal.
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7Aug 2012
Retraction Watch, the essential blog by Ivan Oransky of Reuters and Adam Marcus, just celebrated its second birthday. That's two years of pursuing retractions, demanding that editors be transparent about why they retracted papers, and making a...
Retraction Watch, the essential blog by Ivan Oransky of Reuters and Adam Marcus, just celebrated its second birthday. That's two years of pursuing retractions, demanding that editors be transparent about why they retracted papers, and making a fuss if they don't. (For more on the site's anniversary, see this interview with Oransky at The Scholarly Kitchen.)
You might think that there are not enough retractions to justify a blog on the topic, but my careful research has revealed the following: Since Retraction Watch was launched, there seem to be many, many more retractions than I remember reading about before. The conclusion is clear: Retraction Watch is the cause of the current epidemic of retractions.
I'm sorry to say, however, that...
As we've...
As we've observed here before, John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel apparently missed the memo on the death of print and the dwindling opportunities for investigative reporting.
So he continues to go to work, chase documents, make calls, and produce remarkable stories that any one of us could have done--but didn't.
The last time we shifted our focus up to the Great Lakes, Fauber was telling a charming tale about a physician who collected more than $20 million in patent royalties from Medtronic--some of it while editing a journal in...
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