A FAILURE TO DISCLOSE COMPETING INTERESTS, PAUL BOURDON

A Failure to Disclose Competing Interests BY PAUL BOURDON MAY 14, 2023 

This is a story of an author who promoted COVID-19 vaccine uptake among adolescents while failing to disclose significant competing interests (e.g., his holding of an unrestricted research grant from Pfizer). This is also a story of a failure of the author’s publisher Nature Reviews Cardiology to enforce Nature Portfolio’s declaration-of-competing-interests policy. Finally, this is a story of a failure of Nature Reviews Cardiology’s editorial- and peer-review process to correct an author’s bias reflecting the author’s competing interests. READ MORE AT A Failure to Disclose Competing Interests ⋆ Brownstone Institute