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The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.<\/p>\n

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A federal prosecutor in Washington has contacted The New England Journal of Medicine, considered the world\u2019s most prestigious medical journal, with questions that suggested without evidence that it was biased against certain views and influenced by external pressures.<\/p>\n

Dr. Eric Rubin, the editor in chief of N.E.J.M., described the letter as \u201cvaguely threatening\u201d in an interview with The New York Times.<\/p>\n

At least three other journals have received similar letters from Edward Martin Jr., a Republican activist serving as interim U.S. attorney in Washington. Mr. Martin has been criticized for using his office<\/a> to target opponents of the administration.<\/p>\n

His letters accused the publications of being \u201cpartisans in various scientific debates\u201d and asked a series of accusatory questions about bias and the selection of research articles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Do they accept submissions from scientists with \u201ccompeting viewpoints\u201d? What do they do if the authors whose work they published \u201cmay have misled their readers\u201d? Are they transparent about influence from \u201csupporters, funders, advertisers and others\u201d?<\/p>\n

News of the letter to N.E.J.M. was reported<\/a> earlier by STAT, a health news outlet.<\/p>\n

Mr. Martin also asked about the role of the National Institutes of Health, which funds some of the research the journals publish, and the agency\u2019s role \u201cin the development of submitted articles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.A federal prosecutor in Washington has contacted The New England Journal of Medicine, considered the world\u2019s most prestigious medical journal, with questions that suggested without evidence that it was biased against certain views and influenced by external pressures.Dr. Eric Rubin, the editor in chief of N.E.J.M., described the letter as \u201cvaguely threatening\u201d in an interview with The New York Times.At least three other journals have received similar letters from Edward Martin Jr., a Republican activist serving as interim U.S. attorney in Washington. Mr. Martin has been criticized for using his office to target opponents of the administration.His letters accused the publications of being \u201cpartisans in various scientific debates\u201d and asked a series of accusatory questions about bias and the selection of research articles.Do they accept submissions from scientists with \u201ccompeting viewpoints\u201d? What do they do if the authors whose work they published \u201cmay have misled their readers\u201d? Are they transparent about influence from \u201csupporters, funders, advertisers and others\u201d?News of the letter to N.E.J.M. was reported earlier by STAT, a health news outlet.Mr. Martin also asked about the role of the National Institutes of Health, which funds some of the research the journals publish, and the agency\u2019s role \u201cin the development of submitted articles.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26663,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26664,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26661\/revisions\/26664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}