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A good response to these rather unusual commentaries was just written by Dr Howard Brody for his Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma blog here: http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/2009/09/fairness-in-enforcing-coi-regs-by.html For a more logical discussion of the effects of conflict of interest, and its disclosure, on how one should evaluate clinical research, see this article: Greenland S. Accounting for uncertainty about investigator bias: disclosure is informative. J Epidemiol Community Health 2009; 63: 593-598. Link <http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/63/8/593>here, requires subscription. For those without a subscription, I summarized its main points on the Health Care Renewal blog here: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-perspective-on-evaluating-effects.html At 06:58 PM 8/31/2009, Jean Levasseur wrote: >Hello, > >Thaught these may be of interest to the group. >Fresh and free from Mayo Clinic Proceedings. > >Cheers ! > >Jean Levasseur MD, MSc >Joliette, QC, Canada > >http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/84/9/771.full.pdf+html > >http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/84/9/811.full.pdf+html Roy M. Poses MD Clinical Associate Professor Brown University School of Medicine <[log in to unmask]>