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May 17, 2005
Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies
Smith R (2005)
PLoS Med
2(5): e138
“Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry”, wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, in March 2004. In the same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, lambasted the industry for becoming “primarily a marketing machine” and co-opting “every institution that might stand in its way”. Medical journals were conspicuously absent from her list of co-opted institutions, but she and Horton are not the only editors who have become increasingly queasy about the power and influence of the industry.
rsp10 May 17, 2005 10:51 AM