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To the Editor: The Editorial by Drs DeAngelis and Fontanarosa¹ addressed publication policies and scientific ethics. We agree with many of the concerns expressed and with many of the proposed solutions. We have serious disagreement, however, about the recommendation to hold authors from for-profit companies and academic or government authors to different professional standards. Drs DeAngelis and Fontanarosa have previously argued that industry could submit biased reports favoring their products.² The argument that, because someone in a specified group could take a certain action, everyone in the group is suspect is unfair. The implied assumption that academic investigators are immune to outside influences is also unwarranted.

Our major concern is with the proposal that "[a]ll journals must require a statistical analysis of clinical trial data conducted by a statistician who is not an employee of a for-profit company." The involvement of a professional statistician in clinical research typically includes helping . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Peter A. Lachenbruch, PhD
peter.lachenbruch@oregonstate.edu
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis

Ronald Wasserstein, PhD
ron@amstat.org
American Statistical Association
Alexandria, Virginia

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