{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The Ethical Nag","provider_url":"http:\/\/ethicalnag.org","author_name":"Carolyn Thomas","author_url":"https:\/\/ethicalnag.org\/author\/czthomas\/","title":"Medical journals: “information-laundering for Big Pharma”?","type":"link","html":"\"The pharmaceutical industry has gained enormous control over how doctors evaluate and use its own products. Its extensive ties to physicians, particularly senior faculty at prestigious medical schools, affect the results of research, the way medicine is practiced, and even the definition of what constitutes a disease.\" So claims the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, in a chilling indictment of how medical journals themselves are complicit in this alarming reality. ","thumbnail_url":"http:\/\/carolynthomas.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/medjournal.jpg?fit=440%2C330","thumbnail_width":null,"thumbnail_height":null}