Recently, a key opinion leader in psychiatry offered a ‘clarification’ in relation to competing financial interests. This influential psychiatrist agrees that “there are doctors in the pocket of companies” but follows this by using language that denigrates those who advocate for greater transparency in science. This professional concludes: “case in point.”
As one of those who has campaigned for legislation that would make it mandatory for all competing financial interests to be declared, I would urge anyone who has witnessed “doctors in the pocket of companies” to openly support the introduction of Sunshine legislation in the UK:
