Worse, Tobias says, the mistrial opens the door to the admission of new accusations from the editors of The New England Journal of Medicine, who says that data were deleted from the manuscript describing the largest-ever study of Vioxx, published in 2000.
In the wake of a court deposition of one of its top editors, The New England Journal of Medicine says that data that might have linked the drug to an increase in heart attacks years earlier was deleted from the biggest study of Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Vioxx, published in 2000.
And as for the editors of the International Journal of Health Services: Shame on you.
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The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has now strengthened its guidelines to restrict the publication of those studies where they feel the objectivity is compromised.
One of the recommendations made by the group was for journal editors to ask authors of stem cell research papers to submit data verifying the authenticity of the stem cell line, and an explanation of how they had complied with accepted standards of good cell culture practice.
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But the editors of the Wall Street Journal, who determine the makeup of the Dow Jones Industrial Index, have dozed off.
Her brother, Hassan, and her sister, Heba, have also been involved with the enterprise, listed for years as associate editors of its main product, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
Just days after Merck recalled Vioxx from the market, editors at The Journal discovered a diskette containing earlier versions of a manuscript for a crucial Vioxx clinical trial called VIGOR that they had published in November 2000.
The discovery stems from a court deposition of Gregory Curfman, one of the Journal's top editors.
But, in any case, the journal editors, aware of the issues involved, had decided that the public health benefits of publishing the paper outweighed other considerations.
Additionally, the statement could claim individuals who have served as officers of nearly every major economics association, including the American Economic Association and American Finance Association, and have served as editors of most top economic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic and Business Statistics and the International Economic Review.
We have had candid, useful meetings with Robert Thomson, the editor, and other key editors, with the general counsel and the acting publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
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Specifically, the email accounts of under two dozen Journal editors, reporters and editorial writers have been hacked for months and maybe longer by the Chinese government.
If only "Light Years" didn't read like a geeky mash note written to impress the editors of October magazine, the famously cerebral art journal that began publication in 1976 (not coincidentally the approximate cut-off date for the artists included).
This is one of the most mendacious propaganda themes in economic history and Wall Street Journal editors should hang their heads in shame (many of them, it seems clear, have known all along that this is propaganda).
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They also urged journal editors to require that the source of cells used in the research be clearly specified.
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Zero interest rates have fooled a lot of people, such as the Wall Street Journal editors, into thinking monetary policy is loose.
The day after Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others slammed into a hill in Croatia, editors at the Wall Street Journal showed what steely stuff they were made of by calling the trip a junket.
M. today, Curfman and two other editors released an editorial on The New England Journal's Web site entitled "Expression of Concern, " which calls on the VIGOR authors to submit a correction of the 2000 manuscript.
Now that the editors of two of America's three leading national newspapers (the third is the Wall Street Journal) have succumbed to scandals, the publishing industry will no doubt be worrying about who may be next.
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