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Manner of Referencing Undermines Article as a Whole
Posted by BSchwedel
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13 Sep 2011 at 20:00 GMT
I would have liked to see additional references (preferably in the public domain) in this article, especially for several key statements that contain attributions of intent (eg, on page 1/column 2 of the pdf version, "...contributorship listings have acquired unintended parallels with advertising small print, and accordingly are used by industry to reduce its own visibility—despite, ironically, being used as the basis of claims to transparency").
Competing interests declared:
Clients of my current employer are pharma companies; I have also worked directly for pharma and am a member of the American Medical Writers Association. However, the opinion expressed here is mine.
