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Can Peer Review Solve Conflicts of Interest?

March 4, 2009 by coglanglab

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As I wrote recently, Stephen Quake has been writing about conflicts of interest in research over at The Wild Side blog. He proposes solving these problems with peer review. I like the article, and he has many thoughtful things to say on the topic, but I don't really understand this proposal.



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