UD's Academic Conflict of Interest Tickertape
They are endemic. Only the biggies make it to the press. Since they are happening all the time, all around us, UD rarely mentions them. She asks you to imagine a tickertape running through University Diaries, which UD sometimes stops in order to highlight a particularly outrageous case. Like this one.
The editor of a U.S. medical journal has resigned in the midst of recent news that he failed to disclose financial ties to industry.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal Monday, Charles Nemeroff, the editor of the medical journal Neuropsychopharmacology, stepped down amid reports he had failed to disclose his financial ties to Cyberonics, the maker of an anti-depression device for which he had written a favorable article. The article in question also failed to disclose that seven other authors of the article served as consultants to the company, while an eighth author was employed by Cyberonics, the newspaper reported.
The article, published in the journal last month, described Cyberonics' product -- a device implanted in the patient's chest to deliver electrical impulses to the vagus nerve as a treatment for depression -- as "a promising and well-tolerated intervention," WSJ said.
The medical journal has since published a correction to the article.
Note that he was the editor of the journal.
Nemeroff's been doing this sort of thing for years, a quick Google search reveals. No one seems to care. I'm sure his position at Emory University remains secure.
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