ACSH Taking on a Conventional Wisdom: Why Disclosure of Research Funding is Detrimental to Good Science:
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date : Thursday, February 4, 1999
Ralph King Jr.'s article ("Medical Journals Rarely Disclose Researchers' Ties," 2/2/98) calls for further analysis of the assertion, by the journal Epidemiology's Kenneth Rothman, that today's conventional wisdom in favor of disclosing corporate funding of research is a "new McCarthyism."  Read Full >>