Really interesting little tid-bit from the world of academia:
If you don’t like getting your paper rejected before it even reaches peer review, ask David Egilman how to get around the process: In what may be an unprecedented move, when the Brown University researcher’s paper was recently rejected from an occupational medicine journal, he simply bought two pages of ad space and printed the entire article in the same journal.
The article brings up some potentially thought-provoking questions concerning ties between researchers and their sponsors in industry, but doesn’t really try to make a case either way. Of course, combined with other recent reports of researcher unpropriety, people might start asking questions…