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by dghughes 3435 days ago
> It's a pretty prestigious journal...

It is but these days it can hard to know going by past reputation alone.

There seems to be a push by some sleazy publishers to buy prestigious medical journals and then take money to publish questionable studies.

Even the watchdogs who have tried to warn everyone have given up (or were forced to shut up).

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/website-tracking-so-called-pred...
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grzm 3435 days ago
While I appreciate the skepticism, and it is sad that there is an apparently increasing number of questionable journals out there, do you have any evidence that NEJM is one of them? They're currently run by the NEJM Group, which is controlled by the Massachusetts Medical Society.

http://www.massmed.org

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dghughes 3435 days ago
No I'm not saying NEJM is I was trying to raise awareness of the situation.

That's good to know NEJM is run by a stable group.

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