Friday, January 28, 2005

BMJ apologize

Nope, the big bad drug company didn't destroy records of prozac side effects...

Even sportswriters should be aware that you check your sources before printing potentially explosive accustions...after all, who do you think you are, CBS?

Here is an example of other scholarly articles by this esteemed editor....

It's a long list of pop science, starting with the first article: Viagra rationed...and ending with the article Butchers and gropers, media coverage of medical malpractice

The problem is not that he is slick (for example, one can imagine the headline: alpha feto protein level variations in in sick Sikhs: a population study...)

But having an editor who specializes in slick interviews and reporting on policy conferences is okay, but medical journals are supposed to report experiments and hard data...not make up stuff...

Dan Rather, call your office...


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