Integrity is the foundation of good science. It is needed to ensure the public’s trust and the lack of it becomes a danger to the public’s welfare. This is especially true in medical science, where a conflict of interest may lead to approval of a drug or technique that is potentially harmful to the patient. And whether a conflict of interest is real or perceived, it has serious repercussions to advancing medical science. This is why an article published yesterday in the NYT and elsewhere that showed that a group investigating lung cancer screening technologies was funded by a tobacco…
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