The Trouble With Medical Journals Author Richard Smith Peer Review Scruitiny

Richard Smith, the Author, was the editor of the British Medical Journal and chief executive of the BMJ publishing Group for 13 years.

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"Should journals then abandon publishing science? In the
end science might abandon them and be posted on publicly
available websites rather than appear in journals; "

"I am amazed that the BMJ has published such a negative review of a book that should be shaking medicine's foundations (BMJ 2007;334:45). Medical publishing has many failings; the fact that this book is not compulsory reading for everyone may well be yet another. "

Pritpal S Tamber, managing director, Medicine Reports Ltd

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Medical journals: past their sell by date?
The Trouble with Medical
Journals
by Richard Smith
The Royal Society of
Medicine Press
£19.95, pp 292
ISBN 1 853135 673 6
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