{"id":3517,"date":"2016-03-21T23:57:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T03:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2016-03-22T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:13:06","slug":"journal-asked-to-retract-asbestos-article-because-of-industry-ties-and-false-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=3517","title":{"rendered":"Journal asked to retract asbestos article because of industry ties and false information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Corrections chip away at asbestos paper for conflicts of interest, \u201cmisleading\u201d citation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The journal Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health (EBPH) has issued back-to-back corrections for a 2015 paper after the authors failed to disclose conflicts of interest with the asbestos industry and included an \u201cerroneous citation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Retraction Watch, March 21, 2016.\u00a0<strong style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Read more\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2016\/03\/21\/corrections-chip-away-at-asbestos-paper-for-conflicts-of-interest-misleading-citation\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EBPH is the official journal of the\u00a0Italian Society of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology (SISMEC).<\/p>\n<p>SISMEC has refused requests to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Letter-to-SISMEC-October-9-2015.pdf\">retract the article<\/a>, as well as a second asbestos article by the same authors, which also failed to disclose industry ties and also included <a href=\"http:\/\/ebph.it\/article\/view\/11590\">seriously misleading information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>If a professional, scientific organisation, such as SISMEC, will not take action to uphold proper scientific and ethical standards, what hope is there of stopping misconduct and improper influence by vested interests? If a professional, scientific organisation will not uphold scientific integrity and the public good, who will?&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read more here: http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2016\/03\/21\/corrections-chip-away-at-asbestos-paper-for-conflicts-of-interest-misleading-citation\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corrections chip away at asbestos paper for conflicts of interest, \u201cmisleading\u201d citation The journal Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health (EBPH) has issued back-to-back corrections for a 2015 paper after the authors failed to disclose conflicts of interest with the asbestos industry and included an \u201cerroneous citation.\u201d Retraction Watch, March 21, 2016.\u00a0Read more\u00a0here. EBPH is the [&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":[147,227,273,279,241],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos","tag-asbestos-lobby","tag-conflict-of-interest","tag-italian-society-of-medical-statistics-and-clinical-epidemiology","tag-publication-ethics","tag-scientific-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","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=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}