MANUFACTURING BIOMEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. “Conflicts of interest” – which have been the subject of intense debates over the last two decades. Regardless of the ongoing debate and attempts by numerous editors to reign in conflicts of interest, the current state of affairs is still far from satisfactory, as Chalmers, the past director of the Cochrane Centre, recently noted.”
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