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Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic Freedom
The current situation in medicine has been described as a crisis of credibility, as the profit motive of industry has taken control of clinical trials and the dissemination of data. Pharmaceutical companies maintain a stranglehold over the content of medical journals in three ways: (1) by ghostwriti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190547/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22013356 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1229.37086 |
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description | The current situation in medicine has been described as a crisis of credibility, as the profit motive of industry has taken control of clinical trials and the dissemination of data. Pharmaceutical companies maintain a stranglehold over the content of medical journals in three ways: (1) by ghostwriting articles that bias the results of clinical trials, (2) by the sheer economic power they exert on journals due to the purchase of drug advertisements and journal reprints, and (3) by the threat of legal action against those researchers who seek to correct the misrepresentation of study results. This paper argues that Karl Popper's critical rationalism provides a corrective to the failure of academic freedom in biomedical research. |
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spelling | pubmed-31905472011-10-19 Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic Freedom McHenry, Leemon Mens Sana Monogr Ethical Issues in Biomedicine The current situation in medicine has been described as a crisis of credibility, as the profit motive of industry has taken control of clinical trials and the dissemination of data. Pharmaceutical companies maintain a stranglehold over the content of medical journals in three ways: (1) by ghostwriting articles that bias the results of clinical trials, (2) by the sheer economic power they exert on journals due to the purchase of drug advertisements and journal reprints, and (3) by the threat of legal action against those researchers who seek to correct the misrepresentation of study results. This paper argues that Karl Popper's critical rationalism provides a corrective to the failure of academic freedom in biomedical research. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC3190547/ /pubmed/22013356 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1229.37086 Text en © Mens Sana Monographs http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Ethical Issues in Biomedicine McHenry, Leemon Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic Freedom |
title | Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic Freedom |
title_full | Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic Freedom |
title_fullStr | Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic Freedom |
title_full_unstemmed | Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic Freedom |
title_short | Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic Freedom |
title_sort | biomedical research and corporate interests: a question of academic freedom |
topic | Ethical Issues in Biomedicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190547/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22013356 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1229.37086 |
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