Research ethics have not "sunk to an all time low"

doi:10.1136/bmj.39220.694109.DB

BMJ 2007;334:1079 (26 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.39220.694109.DB

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Research ethics have not "sunk to an all time low"

Geoff Watts

London

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Clinical researchers working on new drugs were "cleared" lastweek of allowing their ethical standards to sink to an all timelow, in a debate held at a conference on clinical research atthe Royal College of Physicians in London.

A small majority of the audience worked in the drug industry,and although the debate was not limited to research within theindustry the convincing win must have cheered those in the drugbusiness, who feel that they have recently been under attack.

The contestants in the debate, entitled "This house believesthat the ethics of clinical research have reached an all timelow," were Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ and now executivedirector at UnitedHealth Europe, who argued for the motion,and Trevor Jones, former director general of the Associationof the British Pharmaceutical Industry.

Dr Smith's first example of unethical behaviour by researchersinside and outside . . . [Full text of this article]

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