A rash of events in the past few days has thrown a spotlight on the tensions that can arise between science's tradition of open publication and industry's penchant for secrecy. The following articles detail two cases of alleged suppression of unfavorable research findings, a survey indicating that a substantial fraction of researchers in the life sciences have delayed publication or withheld results and materials from colleagues, and a dispute among the top medical journals over rules to guard against conflict of interest in medical publications. But a story on page 527 suggests that not all university-industry interactions are so fraught with problems.
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