How Can Journals Respond to Threats of Libel Litigation?

Trudo Lemmens and colleagues discuss how the mere suggestion of litigation can bias the medical literature by affecting editorial decisions. They argue that journals and authors should publicly post threats of litigation, or cease and desist letters, for which there are some international legal prec...

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Autores principales: Persaud, Nav, Ringer, Thom, Lemmens, Trudo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Policy Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3965377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24667795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001615
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description Trudo Lemmens and colleagues discuss how the mere suggestion of litigation can bias the medical literature by affecting editorial decisions. They argue that journals and authors should publicly post threats of litigation, or cease and desist letters, for which there are some international legal precedents. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary
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spelling pubmed-39653772014-03-27 How Can Journals Respond to Threats of Libel Litigation? Persaud, Nav Ringer, Thom Lemmens, Trudo PLoS Med Policy Forum Trudo Lemmens and colleagues discuss how the mere suggestion of litigation can bias the medical literature by affecting editorial decisions. They argue that journals and authors should publicly post threats of litigation, or cease and desist letters, for which there are some international legal precedents. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary Public Library of Science 2014-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3965377/ /pubmed/24667795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001615 Text en © 2014 Persaud et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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 author and source are properly credited.
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