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Hidden Conflicts? Pharma Payments to FDA Advisers After Drug Approvals Spark Ethical Concerns
Hidden Conflicts? Pharma Payments to FDA Advisers After Drug Approvals Spark Ethical Concerns
In examining compensation records from drug companies to physicians who advised FDA, Science found widespread after-the-fact payments or research support to panel members. The agency's safeguards against potential conflicts of interest are not designed to prevent such future financial ties.
Hidden Conflicts?
An investigative report uncovers little recognized and unpoliced potential conflicts of interest among those who serve on FDA advisory panels that review drugs. FDA may also have missed or judged insignificant financial ties physicians had before their service on the drug approval advisory panels.
Elsevier Are Corrupting Open Science in Europe
Elsevier - one of the largest and most notorious scholarly publishers - are monitoring Open Science in the EU on behalf of the European Commission. Jon Tennant argues that they cannot be trusted.
Controversial NIH Study of "Moderate Drinking" Will Be Terminated After Scathing Report
Controversial NIH Study of "Moderate Drinking" Will Be Terminated After Scathing Report
The drinking study had raised concerns because NIH officials had solicited funding for the $100 million project from liquor companies, with the money funneled through the private NIH Foundation.
Hated Science Publisher Elsevier To Help EU Monitor Open Science - Including Open Access
Hated Science Publisher Elsevier To Help EU Monitor Open Science - Including Open Access
Elsevier will be providing data to guide EU policy decisions that it stands to gain from materially in significant ways.
Winner of DARPA Robot Competition Partners with Weapons Company, AI Researchers Call For Boycott
Nature Journals Tighten Rules on Non-Financial Conflicts
What makes a conflict of interest (COI) in science? Definitions differ, but broadly agree on one thing: an influence that can cloud a researcher’s objectivity. Nature and the other Nature Research journals are taking into account some of these non-financial sources of possible tension and conflict.
Philip Morris Funded Anti-Smoking Foundation Targeting Public Health Leaders With Grants
Leaked emails reveal that the foundation is actively making offers of grants to officials at the WHO as well as people in India and abroad without explicitly revealing its single source of funding – Philip Morris International.
How the Sugar Industry Tried to Hide the Health Effects of Its Product 50 Years Ago
Conflicts of Interest in Scientific Publishing
Golden OA creates a conflict of interest: in a situation where the number of scientists is larger than the number of available positions, both journals and scientists benefit from publishing as many articles as possible.
Financial Ties of Medical Journal Editors Should Be Disclosed
Approximately half of the editors of 52 prestigious U.S. medical journals received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2014.
Medical Journals Have a Fake News Problem
With help from drug companies, Omics International is making millions as it roils the scientific community with sketchy publications.
Historic Co-Authorships Speed up Editor Handling Times
Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.
Too Many Studies Have Hidden Conflicts of Interest. A New Tool Makes It Easier to See Them.
Coca-Cola's Secret Influence on Medical and Science Journalists
A series of journalism conferences on obesity received covert funding from Coca-Cola.
The FDA Chief Must Not Be a Proxy for Industry
Trump’s pick for the US regulatory agency will bring experience and a clear vision — as well as ties to industry.
Quantifying the Effect of Editor–Author Relations on Manuscript Handling Times
Quantifying the Effect of Editor–Author Relations on Manuscript Handling Times
Prior co-authorship relations have a large and significant influence on manuscript handling times, speeding up the editorial decision on average by 19 days.
Conflicts of Interest and Authorship of Industry‐Sponsored Publications
Discussing the role of investigators in the authorship of industry-sponsored publications.
Open Science and Free Culture
A committment by a young researcher to practice open and good science, and more generally to free culture.
Conflicts of Interest in GM Bt Crop Efficacy and Durability Studies
An analysis focusing on the efficacy or durability of GM Bt crops and ties between the researchers carrying out these studies and the GM crop industry showing that ties between researchers and the GM crop industry were common, with 40% of the articles considered displaying conflicts of interest (COI).