Dear Badri,
On 30-Jan-04 Badri wrote:
> [...]
> This morning’s BMJ reported an incident where the executive
> editor of an American speciality journal has to refuse publishing
> an editorial on epoetin written by the president of the non-profit
> making Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute, despite
> a favourable peer review. The BMJ reports that the editor of the
> journal wrote to the author of the editorial that he had been
> "overruled by our marketing department.
> I feel that this amounts to interference in editorial independence.
Thank you for bringing this out! This seems appalling to me: what
have a "marketing department" to do with the reporting of scientific
opinion?
> You can access the BMJ news @
> http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7434/244-b
>
> Disturbed by this report, I spent this morning writing up a rapid
> response to this item, which is available from the BMJ web site @
> http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7434/244-b#48764
I shall be looking these up!
Thanks, and best wishes,
Ted.
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