✦ LIBER ✦

Re: “Disclosure of interest: A time for clarity”

✍ Scribed by Dr. Bernard D. Goldstein

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Weight: 188 KB
Volume: 28
Category: Article
ISSN: 0271-3586
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.4700280510

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

My initial response to the editor's request for an academic's comments was to be positive about AJZM's new disclosure of interest policy [Landrigan, 19941. After all, knowledge is surely a nominal good, and anything that increases it is bound to be helpful in our interpretation of science. We are all well aware of instances of biased and even fraudulent reporting of data. However, the more I tried to write about it, the more I concluded that the difficulties with this specific policy outweighed the advantages. Although I strongly support open disclosure of funding sources and of other overt conflicts of interest, I believe the new AJZM policy is likely to present more problems than it solves in terms of the conduct of science. Further, despite disclosure requirements that go so far as to be unworkable, it is unlikely to be fully effective in achieving its goals. As I will be opposing an approach aimed at revealing possible

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