Such policies have been challenged recently In its January 28 issue, the Journal published results of a clinical trial indicating that male physicians who took an aspirin every other day had fewer heart attacks than colleagues who took a placebo. The Reuters news agency ran a story on the study before the release date; Relman responded by suspending the wire service’s special airmail subscription for six months.
Q: Was there much controversy over your decision to publish the report by a committee of the University of California at San Diego on 137 articles by Robert A. Slutsky? RELMAN: No, I’m not aware of any. Q: Some of the articles that committee identified as either questionable or fraudulent have still not been retracted, apparently because the journals in question are worried about litigation. Is that fear appropriate? RELMAN: Fears about litigation are always appropriate in our litigious society. Whether they are ...
