BMJ paper published today: Deficiencies in proposed new EU regulation of clinical trials

[Peter Gøtzsche]

Dear all,

the BMJ has acted very, very quickly:

- 9 Dec: "Unfortunately we do not consider it suitable for publication
in its present form. However if you are able to amend it in the light
of our and/or reviewers' comments, we would be happy to consider it
again. We recognise the topicality of this so if you do want to
resubmit we would consider it swiftly."

- 11 Dec: my resubmission

- 12 Dec: paper accepted

- then editing and tworounds of proofs

- 20 Dec: published; 11 days after the paper was not suitable for publication!

I am most grateful for this support from the BMJ and hope you can use
the paper as one of several contributions to suggestionsfor important
amendments to the proposed regulation.

bw

Peter Gøtzsche

[Trish Groves]

On behalf of my colleagues on the BMJ's Analysis team, it was our pleasure Peter  - thanks again for submitting the article.

I've tweeted it, and it would be great if other Twitter users on this listserv could do the same.
There's a lot of Christmas BMJ content out there at the moment, and it would be good to differentiate this from the papers about dead Olympians, pharaohs, and rock stars (the last was from BMJ Open).

All the best
Trish

Dr Trish Groves
Deputy editor, BMJ
and Editor-in-chief, BMJ Open

+44 207 383 6018
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[Ross, Joseph]

I’ve given it a tweet.

Hope everyone enjoys a nice holiday and a happy new year.

Joe Ross

[Trish Groves]

Thanks Joe

And I meant to include the link to the published paper; sorry. Here it is:
http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8522

Trish

[Tom Jefferson]

Well done Peter.

Have a rest.

Tom.

[Trisha Greenhalgh]

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[Trisha Greenhalgh]

Sorry folks that should have just gone to Peter!