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JAMA Editor Calls Critic a "Nobody And A Nothing"
added on 14 Mar 2009
Yesterday, I reported on a dustup between Jonathan Leo, a neuroanatomy professor at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, and Catherine DeAngelis, editor in chief of JAMA and an alleged foe of conflict of interest in academic publishing. Leo and his colleague Jeffrey Lacasee, an assistant pro...
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JAMA Editor Calls Critic a "Nobody And A Nothing"
posted to Furious Seasons on 23 Sep 2009
Yesterday, I reported on a dustup between Jonathan Leo, a neuroanatomy professor at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, and Catherine DeAngelis, editor in chief of JAMA and an alleged foe of conflict of interest in academic publishing. Leo and his colleague Jeffrey Lacasee, an assistant pro...
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JAMA editors pressure antidepressant whistle blower
posted to Mind Hacks on 23 Sep 2009
This is both odd and slightly disturbing. The Wall Street Journal reports that an medical researcher has been publicly insulted and allegedly threatened and by the editors of the medical heavyweight Journal of the American Medical Association for calling out an antidepressant study for undisclose...
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JAMA editors let tempers fly over "nothing"
posted to The Great Beyond on 23 Sep 2009
For “a nobody and a nothing”, neuroanatomy professor Jonathan Leo sure seems to have riled the editorial staff at JAMA. The tempest began when Leo, a professor at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, wrote a letter to the British Medical Journal (BMJ) about a paper published by J...
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If you give it out you've got to take it
posted to PharmaGossip on 23 Sep 2009
“The profession of medicine, in every aspect—clinical, education, and research—has been inundated with profound influence from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. This has occurred because physicians have allowed it to happen, and it is time to stop,” JAMA editors Catherine D. DeAng...
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The kind of thing that gives editors a bad name.
posted to Nothing's Shocking on 23 Sep 2009
Was JAMA editor-in-chief Catherine DeAngelis even thinking when she deliberately berated a concerned scientist to the WSJ? In response to a letter published by Dr. Jonathan Leo in BMJ questioning the conflict of interest by authors of a recent JAMA study, Dr. DeAngelis called Dr. Leo a “nobody” a...
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What Was JAMA and Catherine DeAngelis Thinking?
posted to World of Psychology on 23 Sep 2009
While I was down in Austin at SXSW this past week, there was a rare glimpse into the big egos that run the journal business in the world. As you may know, publishing research articles is a business, and because it’s involves prestigious reputations — both on the journal and academia side — there ...
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