TY - JOUR
T1 - Defamation lawsuits
T2 - academic sword or shield?
AU - Hall-Lipsy, Elizabeth
AU - Malanga, Sarah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Authors. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - Scientists and academics are used to defending their theories, methods, and results in the classroom, at conferences, and in peer-reviewed publications. But Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, learned that he had to defend his research in a defamation suit while reading a supplement industry trade publication (Robins,). Cohen is known as a “dogged detective” for scrutinizing dietary supplements and for advocating for their stricter oversight by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
AB - Scientists and academics are used to defending their theories, methods, and results in the classroom, at conferences, and in peer-reviewed publications. But Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, learned that he had to defend his research in a defamation suit while reading a supplement industry trade publication (Robins,). Cohen is known as a “dogged detective” for scrutinizing dietary supplements and for advocating for their stricter oversight by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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U2 - 10.15252/emmm.201708489
DO - 10.15252/emmm.201708489
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 29038313
AN - SCOPUS:85035796259
SN - 1757-4676
VL - 9
SP - 1623
EP - 1625
JO - EMBO Molecular Medicine
JF - EMBO Molecular Medicine
IS - 12
ER -