{"id":7756,"date":"2012-11-19T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T05:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2013-06-25T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:01:19","slug":"medical-journals-extension-of-the-marketing-arm-of-pharmaceutical-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/medical-journals-extension-of-the-marketing-arm-of-pharmaceutical-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Journals &#8211; Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLoS Med. 2005 May; 2(5): e138.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1140949\/\">Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>Richard Smith<br \/>\n\u201cJournals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry\u201d, wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, in March 2004 [1]. In the same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, lambasted the industry for becoming \u201cprimarily a marketing machine\u201d and co-opting \u201cevery institution that might stand in its way\u201d [2]. Medical journals were conspicuously absent from her list of co-opted institutions, but she and Horton are not the only editors who have become increasingly queasy about the power and influence of the industry. Jerry Kassirer, another former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, argues that the industry has deflected the moral compasses of many physicians [3], and the editors of PLoS Medicine have declared that they will not become \u201cpart of the cycle of dependency\u2026between journals and the pharmaceutical industry\u201d [4]. Something is clearly up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLoS Med. 2005 May; 2(5): e138. Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies Richard Smith \u201cJournals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry\u201d, wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, in March 2004 [1]. In the same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1104,1686,1403],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-marketing","tag-medical-journals","tag-pharma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9666,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions\/9666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}