Vaccines This paper was rejected by the N Engl J Med. After reporting data showing poor protection after vaccination against varicella, the authors gave 3 references to maintain that, in spite of these unexpected results, immunisation has reduced the incidence of varicella “dramatically”. Attached documents NEJM_varicella_letter.pdf
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Reliability of referencing
Hepatitis B This paper was rejected by the Lancet in Jan, 2004 A recent paper from Spain showed that bibliographical references given by the pharmaceutical industry to support their promotional claims are often inaccurate...
Conflicts of interests
Hepatitis B This paper was rejected by The Lancet in Nov 2003, on the basis that a colleague of van Damme provided to the Journal "the details of 10 papers from peer-reviewed journals in which the association between HBV and MS is refuted". In September, following the French Ministry of…
Expert mongering
Conflicts of interest Pharmaceutical industry has not only the power of linking experts with money or various favours, it is also able of creating and promoting those whose work (or incompetence) is consistent with its interests. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/329/7459/189#70360
Vaccination: misconceptions about misconception
Hepatitis B According to a BMJ editorial (21 Aug. 2004)Bedford H. Misconceptions about the new combination vaccine. BMJ 2004;329:411., doubts about vaccination programmes cannot be based on more than “misconceptions”. Let's try to demonstrate that in this field the distribution between “myth” and “reality” is not so univocal : this…