Author: Daniel Luchins
Position: Chief Mental Health Research
Institution: Jesse Brown VAMC
E-mail: danl@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu
Submitted Date: October 07, 2008
Published Date: October 9, 2008
This comment was originally posted as a “Reader Response” on the publication date indicated above. All Reader Responses are now available as comments.

Young et al are to be commended for their intriguing article on how current publishing practices might distort science. In keeping with their analogy to economics I would like to suggest two additional 'inflation fighting' measure that were published in an opinion piece entitled "Where have All the Breakthroughs Gone."(Psychiatric Services 59:597 June 2008).One would be a disclosure by authors ( similar to a financial disclosure) of previous work that has failed to be replicated. Second would be an ‘obituary section’ in medical journals providing a follow –up on previously published articles whose conclusions have since been shown to be wrong.