The list of fired medical journal editors became longer in February when the two top editors at the Canadian Medical Association Journal were fired after a dispute with the publisher over an article about emergency contraception. The deposed editors have joined a distinguished club whose members include: George Lundberg, whom the American Medical Association deposed as editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association after he published a sex survey in 1999 at the height of the Clinton impeachment hearings; and Jerome Kassirer, whose contract as editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) was not renewed after disagreements with the publisher over expanding the journal's brand name.
In 1983, the Medical Journal of Australia's editor since only the year before, Alan Blum, was fired after he allegedly designated too much editorial space to the harms of tobacco. A few years later, the Irish Medical Journal (IMJ) fired ...
