JAMA editor won't ban authors for nondisclosure

On the advice of attorneys, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association says she won't ban authors who fail to disclose their financial ties to the drug industry, as a ban might spur antitrust suits. A ban "would only encourage that author to send his or her articles to another journal; it cleans our house by messing others," says Catherine DeAngelis, who has been highlighting cases of authors who fail to adhere to JAMA's disclosure rules. Critics who had been calling for a ban immediately launched new assaults on JAMA, saying it was refusing to enforce even basic standards of conduct by authors.

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