Corruption of the medical literature is impossible to prevent
Medicine improves regularly. Our tests, our surgeries, our
medicines are better now than they were 10 years ago. The main
driver of this improvement is the scientific method. Using this,
the worse is discarded and the better retained. Doctors have to
work hard to keep up with the progress. They rely on impartial
and accurate information transmitted by articles, reviews, and
CME material in order to advise and treat their patients.  To
help assure its readers that presentations are unbiased,
journals insist on full disclosure from its authors. Authors
have to state whether they actually wrote the article. CME
presentations require its readers to state if the presentation
appeared biased and if so in what way.  This article argues that
there can be no certainty that information is unbiased, fair and
accurate, because the individual physician will not be able to
detect two common deceptions.  The first is to omit key facts
deliberately. The doctor wo