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Fossil fuel industry’s funding of medical research
Fossil fuel industry funding undermines the integrity of scientific findings
BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r107 (Published 22 January 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r107
- Giovanni Ghirga, paediatrician and member1 2,
- Paolo Ghirga, dermatologist1
- 1Civitavecchia, Italy
- 2Italian Branch, International Society of Doctors for the Environment, Bern, Switzerland
- gi8589pa{at}gmail.com
Boytchev and colleagues investigate the fossil fuel industry’s influence on medical research.1 We deeply appreciated The BMJ’s bold decision in 2020 to ban advertising and research funded by companies producing fossil fuels—a ban now being extended to other BMJ Group journals.23 This principled action sets an important precedent for medical …
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