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Dear Karleen,
There is a journal here in Italy published by the "Associazione
Culturale Pediatri", a pediatric association (not the biggest one) that
does not accept advertising period. The cost of publication is covered
by membership dues, and they have reduced costs by deciding on 2 colors,
black and red, for print. This was a decision made at the end of 2006,
after reflecting on exactly the types of conflict of interest your
mentioned.
Elise Chapin
Florence, Italy
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:22:09 +1000
> From: Karleen Gribble <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: research funding
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> No one has responded to my earlier post asking about journals that
> will not publish research funded by the infant formula industry. Is it
> the case that it is only Breastfeeding Review that will not publish
> research funded by formula manufacturers??? I asked this question
> originally because I was a little shocked to recently pick up an issue
> of JHL and to read a very interesting paper on perceived insufficient
> milk but to then discover that although the authors said they had no
> competing interests that the research was funded by Nestle....
> Personally, I am of the opinion that infant formula manufacturers have
> no business in funding breastfeeding research. I am also of the
> opinion that while ever journals are happy to accept industry funded
> research that researchers will be happy to accept the $$ and I do not
> think that it is a good situation for researchers to be in debt to
> industry. There is also the concern that the source of funding can
> influence the design and reseults of research but that is less
> insidious than the development of cosy relationships acceptance of
> funding creates between industry and researchers and the legitimacy
> that journals publishing industry funded research gives to the infant
> formula industry. I'll paste in below a discussion about funding in
> relation to tobacco. What do others think?? Any others feel similarly?
> What do JHL and other breastfeeding journals gain from publishing
> research funded by the baby food industries? Am I missing something?
> Karleen Gribble
> Australia
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> What moral misgivings may arise in connection with the financing of
> research? Does the source of the funds for a research project matter?
> Tobacco exemplifies this problem well. Tobacco smoking is the largest
> single cause of illness and premature death in the industrialized
> world, but the tobacco industry is also one of its most profitable
> commercial undertakings. Decades of increasing scientific evidence for
> the harmfulness of smoking have increased the moral pressure on
> manufacturers. Good relations with the scientific community is a
> desirable way to demonstrate the legitimacy of their operations.
> Medical researchers should act in accordance with the classical
> ethical principles of medicine; autonomy, doing good, justice and
> doing no harm. The activities of the tobacco manufacturing companies
> are not in accordance with these principles. Every medical researcher
> or physician who uses funding from the tobacco companies cannot escape
> the fact of lending his or her name to the manufacture of a lethal
> product.
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