An interview with Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical Association, is presented. Nagpaul is credited for increasing the visibility and credibility of the committee at a time when relations with the British government had broken down. He talks about...
British Medical Journal’s editor has been forced into an embarrassing admission that the journal should have disclosed connections with MMR manufacturers Merck and GSK when publishing attacks on the integrity of Andrew Wakefield in January (HERE). Godlee’s admission came eight days after...
Davis, who is also a member of BMA Council, a board member of Dignity in Dying, and chair of Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying, argues that the current disconnect between BMA policy and the views of doctors and patients "undermines the BMA's credibility, and its continuing oppositio...
on being made aware of this, not only did these patented “inventions” represent enormous claims, they also represented the potential of big money. Enough, it was agreed, to open a new medical school.
How will this affect the journal's credibility as an independent and peer reviewed publication, and will the journal continue to declare an outright stance on further controversial subjects? I also wasn't clearwho was expressingthe opinion here. The editorial said, "The BMJ hopes that this bill...
Below is an excerpt from Brian Deer's special report,Does autistic enterocolitis exist?this week in theBritish Medical Journal. He is a journalist who resides in the bowels of the Dr. Andrew Wakefield GMC hearing. Below it is Dr. Wakefield's response, (alsoHERE in .pdf.) ...
opinions and formulas might carry a little more credibility. Laying out an ambitious feast of bold but essentially fatuous opinions and blurred definitions—an unquantified muddle "of loosely connected assumptions," [Gupta]—does NOT constitute a cogently reasoned analysis of observable social entities...
The authors discusses how readers and interested parties can join in the self correction process that is important to medical research's credibility by being able to access prepublication histories. They say that open peer review should boost the editors and reviewers' accountability. They also ...
The authors discusses how readers and interested parties can join in the self correction process that is important to medical research's credibility by being able to access prepublication histories. They say that open peer review should boost the editors and reviewers' accountability. They also ...