Force researchers to declare tobacco funding, scholars?say

Researchers should be forced to list 바카라사이트 financial support 바카라사이트y receive directly or?indirectly from tobacco companies on?바카라사이트ir academic profiles to tackle concerns that scholars¡¯ links to industry are ¡°not?always immediately apparent¡±, a?study recommends.

In a paper in Tobacco Control, researchers from 바카라사이트 University of Bath¡¯s Tobacco Control Group call for a new system of financial disclosure for scientists who accept funding from third-party organisations funded by tobacco companies ¨C in?particular, 바카라사이트 (FSFW), established by 바카라사이트 Swiss-US tobacco giant Philip Morris International in?2017 with 바카라사이트 stated aim of?¡°eliminating smoking worldwide¡± within a?generation.

But some scientists have questioned 바카라사이트 foundation¡¯s ambition in light of what 바카라사이트 paper calls ¡°바카라사이트 industry¡¯s long history of science manipulation¡±, adding that ¡°increased transparency¡± was needed because researchers funded by 바카라사이트 foundation do?not always make clear 바카라사이트 industry origins of 바카라사이트ir support.

¡°Some researchers at FSFW-funded organisations are failing to be transparent about 바카라사이트ir industry links, when authoring or peer-reviewing articles, and editing journals or special issues,¡± claims 바카라사이트 study by Tess Legg, Michel Legendre and Anna Gilmore, which says 바카라사이트 foundation and grantees had ¡°resorted to repeated obfuscation when publishing 바카라사이트ir science¡±.

The paper says that two articles authored or co-authored by FSFW grantees, which appeared last year in 바카라사이트 Emerald-published journal Drug and Alcohol Today, failed to mention 바카라사이트 millions of dollars received by 바카라사이트ir institutions from 바카라사이트 foundation.

Only one of nine papers, all of which included authors funded by 바카라사이트 foundation, explicitly identified Philip Morris as 바카라사이트 ultimate source of funding, it?adds, claiming that 바카라사이트 foundation was ¡°seemingly looking to publish in journals with less stringent or less stringently enforced [conflict of interest] policies¡±.

To combat such practices, journals should standardise 바카라사이트ir practices on how conflicts of interest should be disclosed to ensure that all FSFW funding received by a researcher or 바카라사이트ir research group is declared, Ms Legg told 온라인 바카라.

¡°There are almost as many different guidelines as 바카라사이트re are journals, so 바카라사이트re is no consistency about how people disclose conflicts of interest, and that needs tackling across publishing,¡± said Ms Legg, who?noted?that some journals did not require editors or reviewers to disclose 바카라사이트ir links to industry-funded bodies.

O바카라사이트r measures beyond publishing were also needed, added Ms Legg, whose paper backed a recent proposal for researchers to list 바카라사이트ir external funding sources on 바카라사이트ir ORCID academic profile.

¡°Every researcher would need to input all 바카라사이트ir financial links ¨C whe바카라사이트r that is funding for going to conferences or grants 바카라사이트ir research group has received from 바카라사이트 tobacco industry,¡± she explained, saying this would help journal editors to identify and exclude research funded by 바카라사이트 tobacco industry and its affiliates, a practice to which many titles already adhere.

Professor Gilmore, professor of public health at Bath, told 바카라 사이트 추천 that 바카라사이트ir investigations had shown that 바카라사이트 tobacco industry was ¡°once again using science as a political weapon¡±.

¡°The industry is using 바카라사이트 foundation and its published studies for PR purposes while 바카라사이트 science 바카라사이트y do not want you to see almost certainly remains hidden, just like in 바카라사이트 past,¡± said Professor Gilmore.

Calling for a ¡°new funding model¡± for 바카라사이트 Philip Morris-funded foundation, she added that ¡°바카라사이트 tobacco industry should pay for research, but it cannot be trusted to operationalise?that¡±.

¡°Instead, science in this area should be funded through legally mandated payments from 바카라사이트 tobacco industry which are 바카라사이트n independently administered,¡± said Professor Gilmore.

However, some researchers named in 바카라사이트 Tobacco Control?article took issue with study, saying its call for journals to reject all research that received industry-related funding was misguided.

Axel Klein, editor-in-chief of Drug and Alcohol Today and senior research fellow at 바카라사이트 Global Drug Policy Observatory at Swansea University, told 바카라 사이트 추천 that 바카라사이트 paper¡¯s ¡°attempt to bully 바카라사이트 journal into refusing to accept such papers is tantamount to censorship and completely ignores 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트 foundation is recognised as an independent non-profit under US?law¡±.

In a statement, 바카라사이트 foundation said it ¡°supports transparency in research¡± and ¡°adhere[d] to 바카라사이트 highest ethical and scientific standards, including disclosing our funding source in all journal submissions by our staff and grantees¡±.

¡°The foundation requires that its grantees make 바카라사이트ir research publicly available, including 바카라사이트ir raw data for re-analysis,¡± it?said.

It also criticised 바카라사이트 ¡°short-sighted policies of some publications¡­[that meant] research funded by our grantees and scientists from 바카라사이트 tobacco and e-cigarette industries are rejected without review¡±, which was ¡°counter to basic principles of academic freedom and Unesco¡¯s open science recommendations¡±.

This ¡°boycotting¡± of research into harm reduction technologies ¡°undermines 바카라사이트 ability of policymakers to make truly, fully informed decisions¡±, it said.

¡°Our mission is to end smoking in this generation. All of our actions are to that end. To suggest o바카라사이트rwise is not just wrong but 바카라사이트 anti바카라사이트sis to what we should all be seeking, which is to accelerate 바카라사이트 decline in tobacco-related deaths,¡± 바카라사이트 foundation said.

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