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A call to the European Congress on Obesity: It’s time to remove corporate sponsorship

BMJ 2023; 380 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p755 (Published 31 March 2023) Cite this as: BMJ 2023;380:p755

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Clarion Call!....Re: A call to the European Congress on Obesity: It’s time to remove corporate sponsorship

Dear Editor,

Someone had to pronounce the sentiments expressed in the article.
Not only the commercial sponsorships - direct or routed circuitously - for the conferences, it will be good to weed out these sponsorships from so called academic research and clinical trials.
Of course, it is very easy to say so, extremely difficult to do the research and trials without adequate funds.
So any attempt to do unsponsored research and trials will have to first find resources not contaminated with vested interests.
At least expressing such a desire is the first step to the distant and difficult to achieve goal.

- Arvind Joshi,
MBBS MD FCGP FAMS FICP.

Competing interests: No competing interests

03 April 2023
Arvind Joshi
Medicine and Therapeutics
Our Own Discussion Group Mumbai PIN 400028, Ruchi Clinical Laboratory and Ruchi Diagnostic Centre Kharghar PIN 410210 Maharashtra India
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