On 12/2/11 9:44 AM, Horton, Joseph J. wrote: > Apparently there are replication issues in biology as well as > psychology. The Wall Street Journal has an article today about > pharmaceutical companies attempting to develop drugs based on > published findings only to find that they cannot replicate the findings.
Not so much biological journals as medical journals. This is, perhaps, because pharmaceutical "research" has become a rather dubious proposition since the pharmaceutical companies took over the testing of their own drugs (he who pays the piper calls to tune, and all that). Some major medical journal editors have noted recently (after their tenures were over, of course) that the journals have been more or less subsumed under the marketing departments of the pharmaceutical companies (who not only pay for much of the "research" that they publish, but also subsidize the journals directly by buying expensive ads in the journals themselves). For relevant quotations, see: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020138 Here in Toronto there have been two high profile cases in which pharmaceutical companies were accused of attempting to interfere with careers of medical researchers who went public with their concerns over the (unreported) side effects of drugs they were conducting (industry-financed) research on: Nancy Olivieri and David Healy. Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=14576 or send a blank email to leave-14576-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
