In the course of biomedical research on humans—for example flu, imaging, and genomic studies—researchers often uncover information about participants that is important to their health wellbeing sometimes even others. many cases, not anticipated in advance, did consent receiving it. For example, when first U.S. Covid-19 case appeared Washington early 2020, a group researchers had already been co...

BACKGROUND It has become standard practice in medical journals to require authors to disclose their relationships with industry. However, these requirements vary among journals and often lack specificity. As a result, disclosures may not consistently reveal author-industry ties. METHODS We examined the 2007 physician payment information from 5 orthopedic device companies to evaluate the curre...

This study examines the valiie relevance of miindated disclosures by UK firms of the investor-finn share o{ liabilities of equily-aecounled ass(x:iaie and joint venture inveslecs. It does so for the six years following the intrtxluction of FRS 9: AssovUiWs ami Join! Ventures, which forced a substantial increase in such disclosures by UK firms. Since ihe increased disclosure requirements were pa...

Using Transparency International’s ratings of firm disclosures on anticorruption efforts, we find that disclosures are related to firms’ country and industry exposures to corruption, and to enforcement and monitoring variables. We then examine whether firms’ residual anticorruption disclosures are related to subsequent allegations of corruption and subsequent performance. Firms with abnormally ...

This is a commentary on the article ‘The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.’ It critically examines two of its key concepts: populism and ‘post truth.’ This commentary argues that there are different types of populism, with unclear links to impacts, and that in some ways, ‘post-truth’ has resonances with arguments advanced in the period a...

Horwich (Mind 123(491), 2014) has argued that only someone with inflationary tendencies could feel inclined to endorse truth relativism. In doing so, he argues deflationism about entails the denial of If sound, Horwich’s argument entail relativism is incompatible any conception our ordinary predicate according which there some sort equivalence between a ground-language claim p and corresponding...

BACKGROUND Conflict of interest (COI) is an important potential source of bias in the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and high rates of COI among guideline authors have been reported in the past. Our objective was to report current rates of disclosure and specific author COI across a broad range of CPGs and to examine whether CPG characteristics were associated with the prese...

This research examines how sociotechnical affordances shape interpretation of disclosure and social judgments on social networking sites. Drawing on the disclosure personalism framework, Study 1 revealed that information unavailability and relational basis underlay personalistic judgments about Facebook disclosures: Perceivers inferred greater message and relational intimacy from disclosures ma...