{"id":2645,"date":"2014-07-18T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T22:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2014-07-18T18:21:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T22:21:27","slug":"scientific-journal-is-considering-request-to-retract-asbestos-promoting-article-written-by-asbestos-industry-consultant-david-bernstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"Scientific journal is considering request to retract asbestos-promoting article written by asbestos industry consultant, David Bernstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca<\/p>\n<p>Below is a preliminary response from the publisher of <em>Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Let us hope that the publisher will act with integrity and retract an article that puts forward scientific misinformation which causes human suffering and loss of life. See: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/?p=2633\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Scientists ask journal to retract scientifically flawed article by leading asbestos industry consultant.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Date: July 18, 2014<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Subject: RE: Letter of Request to Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Dear Professor Lemen,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>I just wanted to update you regarding the article by Bernstein. The journal will publish a correction to the conflicts of interest statement in the next issue while we continue to investigate and consider your request to retract the article \u201cdue to its bias, its scientifically flawed data, its selective literature review and its misrepresentation of facts\u2026[and] because it contributes to harm to health\u201d.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Kind regards<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Ian<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Ian Burgess<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Group Publisher, Medical Journals<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Medical Research<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>www.wolterskluwer.com<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/?p=2593\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Scientist, financed by the asbestos industry, falsely states that he has no conflict of interest<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/?p=2603\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Why are a medical journal and doctors, who specialize in mesothelioma, helping promote the use of asbestos?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/?p=2620\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">David Bernstein: full disclosure of his intimate relationship with asbestos industry groups is required <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/?p=2633\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Scientists ask journal to retract scientifically flawed article by leading asbestos industry consultant.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca Below is a preliminary response from the publisher of Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine. Let us hope that the publisher will act with integrity and retract an article that puts forward scientific misinformation which causes human suffering and loss of life. See: Scientists ask journal to retract scientifically flawed article by leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[147,191,247,241],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos","tag-asbestos-lobby","tag-david-bernstein","tag-scientific-integrity","tag-scientific-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}