Editorial independence at the BMJ: ...and the author apologises unreservedly

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7466.624-d

BMJ 2004;329:624-625 (11 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7466.624-d

Letter

Editorial independence at the BMJ

...and the author apologises unreservedly

The first 100% of the full text of this article appears below.

EDITOR—In my zeal to protect editorial freedom at theBMJ, and profoundly troubled over the fates of George Lundbergat JAMA and Jerome Kassirer at the New England Journal of Medicine,I shot from the hip in my original letter to the BMJ.

In doing so I made a dumb mistake. I lack evidence that parentsocieties and advertisers suppress the publication of articlesthey don't like at these journals.

I withdraw this assertion and apologise to DeAngelis and Drazen,their respective journals and medical societies, and everybodyelse for my error.

David L Sackett, director

Trout Research and Education Centre at Irish Lake, RR 1, Markdale, ON, Canada N0C 1H0 sackett@bmts.com

Competing interests: See http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/324/7336/539/DC1.In addition, DS was the founding editor of Evidence-Based Medicineand sits on the advisory or editorial boards of ACP JournalClub, the BMJ, Clinical Trials, and the Journal of ClinicalEpidemiology.

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