Posted to the Globe and Mail as E-letter


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060317.wcmaj0317/CommentStory/#comment145439

Ajai Singh from Mumbai, India writes:

The fifteen editorial board members who have resigned have shown a rare act of courage. They have risked their academic future for the welfare of Canadian medicine in particular and biomedical publication in general.

Upright editors have been sacked in medical journals before, like at JAMA and NEJM. It is for the first time that such a strong counter offensive by members of the editorial board has been launched.

If they succeed, and I earnestly hope they do, it will be written in golden letters in the history of biomedical publication. They need all the support that other publications, and the people at large, can give.

I hope questions are raised in the Canadian Parliament on this issue too.

And I hope guidelines are laid whereby upright Editors cannot be summarily sacked by high handed employers.

Posted 20/03/06 at 10:41 AM EST

Ajai
21 Mar 2006