| Title |
Obesity, the Endocannabinoid System, and Bias Arising from Pharmaceutical Sponsorship
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0005092 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John M. McPartland |
| Abstract |
Previous research has shown that academic physicians conflicted by funding from the pharmaceutical industry have corrupted evidence based medicine and helped enlarge the market for drugs. Physicians made pharmaceutical-friendly statements, engaged in disease mongering, and signed biased review articles ghost-authored by corporate employees. This paper tested the hypothesis that bias affects review articles regarding rimonabant, an anti-obesity drug that blocks the central cannabinoid receptor. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 2 | 67% |
| Spain | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 57 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 51 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 18% |
| Researcher | 9 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 14% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Professor | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 12 | 21% |
| Unknown | 9 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 22 | 39% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 5% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 11 | 19% |
| Unknown | 12 | 21% |