Publication of Sponsored Symposiums in Medical Journals

To the Editor: The Coalition of Healthcare Communicators takes exception to the article by Bero et al (Oct. 15 issue).¹ Their research seems to be centered on the supposition of some in academia today that if industry is involved it must be a bad thing. The authors use arbitrary measures to judge the purity of editorial material generated by seminars and symposiums funded by the pharmaceutical industry. For example, readers are asked to accept their judgment of what is a “misleading title,” with only one debatable example provided. It is also important to note that the Accreditation Council for Continuing…