The Celltex Affair

Last week, my colleague at the University of Minnesota Leigh Turner began blogging and tweeting about the conflicts of interest raised by housing the American Journal of Bioethics at Celltex. In response, a number of confusing and conflicting statements were issued by Celltex, McGee, and the editorial staff of the journal. McGee announced that he was resigning as editor, and that his wife would share his vacated spot on the masthead with a scholar at Stanford. On Thursday, Feb. 16, John Lantos, a pediatrician and former president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, announced that he had resigned from the editorial board and was boycotting the journal. ?If, as we?ve been told, [the publisher of the journal] really asked Glenn McGee to stay on as editor once he?d taken a job at Celltex, and if they really believed that the resulting conflicts-of-interest were manageable, one must wonder about both their judgment and their mission,? Lantos wrote. ?Imagine that the editor of the New England Journal took a job as Vice President at Merck, and the Mass Medical Society asked him to stay on as editor, opining that the conflicts of interest would be manageable. One might rightly wonder, 'What are these people smoking?' ?

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