Conflicts of interest among authors of clinical trials, such as being a paid consultant for pharmaceutical companies, must be declared.

“and I think even more important than that is kind of understanding what the conflicts of interest are of the authors and and nowadays those have to be declared but there's been a huge amount of hoopla over that and there have been some very famous examples of um people who are on editorial Boards of journals or publishing like crazy and not declaring that hey I'm a paid consultant of these 10 Pharma companies companies and I'm writing or doing experiments on drugs by these people or I'm an editor on journals that are commenting on on this”