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Highly speculative

Posted by AdamJacobs on 01 Oct 2010 at 09:48 GMT

Industry-funded marketing messages may infest articles in every medical journal.
http://plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000335#article1.body1.sec8.p3

Is there any evidence for this? This appears simply to be highly speculative extrapolation from a few high-profile but probably unrepresentative cases.

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