Let’s take New England Journal of Medicine. It’s a journal that pretends to do peer review. It’s the highest ranked journal in medicine.
The New England Journal of Medicine endorsed the CONSORT guidelines on best practice in trial reporting.
Does the peer review mean that authors who submit papers to the journal get told to modify their papers to fulfill the standards laid out in the CONSORT guidelines? No, the top rated journal in medicine doesn’t use peer review to make sure that the papers in their journal fulfill the standards that the journal endorsed.
What does the FDA do about such violations of scientific integrity? It doesn’t care. The NHI doesn’t even fund projects fighting it, so Ben Goldacre needed to get outside sources of money with the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (hedge fund billionaire money).
The problem with the FDA isn’t that they regulate a lot but that they regulate in the interests of Big Pharma instead of regulating in the interest of the citizens.
Tort reform also seems to be important in the US context and the example that Scott brought. It wasn’t just the FDA regulating but a company withdrawing their product to avoid getting sued.
Let’s take New England Journal of Medicine. It’s a journal that pretends to do peer review. It’s the highest ranked journal in medicine. The New England Journal of Medicine endorsed the CONSORT guidelines on best practice in trial reporting.
Does the peer review mean that authors who submit papers to the journal get told to modify their papers to fulfill the standards laid out in the CONSORT guidelines? No, the top rated journal in medicine doesn’t use peer review to make sure that the papers in their journal fulfill the standards that the journal endorsed.
What does the FDA do about such violations of scientific integrity? It doesn’t care. The NHI doesn’t even fund projects fighting it, so Ben Goldacre needed to get outside sources of money with the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (hedge fund billionaire money).
The problem with the FDA isn’t that they regulate a lot but that they regulate in the interests of Big Pharma instead of regulating in the interest of the citizens.
Tort reform also seems to be important in the US context and the example that Scott brought. It wasn’t just the FDA regulating but a company withdrawing their product to avoid getting sued.