Journals Agree to Publish Alternative Assessments of Clinical-Trial Data - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Summary:
"Two leading medical journals announced on Thursday that they would begin publishing analyses that take advantage of the growing availability of unreported study data to rebut the conclusions presented in previous research findings.
The journals, BMJ and PLoS Medicine, made the commitment along with a small group of researchers who said they already have collected some 178,000 pages of companies' previously confidential research documents related to published studies.
The effort is an attempt to take a more aggressive approach to the problem of studies in which an industry sponsor has either hidden or distorted unwelcome findings concerning a medical discovery, said one organizer, Peter N. Doshi, a postdoctoral fellow in comparative-effectiveness research at the Johns Hopkins University.
"We can't have publications that are just about, 'Trust me, here's what I found,'" Mr. Doshi said...."