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PubMed — a powerful taxpayer-funded search engine for medical study abstracts that doctors, patients, and the media rely on — just started displaying conflict of interest data up front. New information about funding sources and potential conflicts will now appear right below study abstracts, which means readers don't have even to open a journal article to be made aware of any possible industry influence over studies.
[...] The change comes a year after 62 scientists and physicians from around the world (including the head of the Center for Science in the Public Interest) lobbied for the update, part of a broader transparency movement in science.
http://www.vox.com/2017/4/19/15350048/pubmed-publishing-conflicts-of-interest-funding-information
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PubMed, the Google of Scientific Search, is now Publishing Funding Information in its Abstracts
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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @01:33PM (1 child)
I beg to differ with you about the ease of finding the COI in published articles. Most of the times there is a statement saying "Authors declare COI" on the first page, or perhaps at the end of the *printed* article. When you get there, it mentions that details are available on-line. Here is the rub - you need to have access to jpurnal or pay ~$35 per article just to see what this COI is about. That is why most people don't bother to look it up. Pubmed putting it at the abstract level is therefore great. Anyone can check it out, as long as they have a decent connection to the net.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 24 2017, @09:44AM
Perhaps that is ONE reason for paywalled journals. Enable publication mills such that no person without an academic stake can criticize the poor lack of genuine content. And anyone that criticize can loose their income, career path or standing. A tits-for-tats standoff. Until some unwanted external part comes to the party.