JAMA Editor Honored as Champion of Integrity in Scientific Research and Publishing
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Veteran JAMA editor Drummond Rennie, MD, has received the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of his advocacy for the free exchange of unbiased scientific information.
The AAAS called Rennie a “visionary in safeguarding the integrity of how scientific information is gathered and communicated.” The award cites his “career-long efforts to promote integrity in scientific research and publishing” as well as his “outspoken advocacy for the freedom of scientists to publish in the face of efforts to suppress their research.”
Drummond Rennie, MD
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Rennie, deputy editor for JAMA and adjunct professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, has been a leader in working to keep unreliable or biased data from being published in the scientific literature. In numerous speeches and articles he has addressed scientific misconduct, editorial freedom, research accountability, conflicts of interest, industry-sponsored research, and …
