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Perhaps the CMAJ could lead the way in implementing a new format which would allow the busy clinician to filter out the biased chaff from papers of true clinical importance. That format is this:
Give prominence of place, immediately following the authors identification and article citation information, to the conflicting interests information on each author, rather than relegating it to the end of the paper.
Faced with line after line of company and corporate interest agency names, most intelligent clinicians would skip to the next article, the one funded by a reputable, unbiased agency. Only equally conflicted academics would be likely to bother reading the writings of those who have "rented" themselves to so many, perhaps as much to keep score as for any academic merit their missive might contain.
If this were implemented, I expect that articles such as this one, by Grant & Jenkins, and those by a Dr. J. Sievenpiper, and similarly widely industry funded authors, would be rarely read. Perhaps CMAJ would even cease to accept such works.
Furthermore, in regards to conflict of interest in articles touching on diet and nutrition, perhaps it should be mandatory that authors declare that they are vegan, some variety of vegetarian, coffee or tea free, alcoholic or abstainer, low carb or keto, paleo, onmivore, carnivore, bacon only or never, or what have you, for such personal decisions certainly guide one's stated opinions, just as how the smoking respirologist rarely scolded his patients for not having quit yet.
Such steps may not be needed for papers on the majority of topics covered by CMAJ. However, for those papers which touch on the most essential elements of our existence, such as the air we breath, the water we drink, and the food which should nourish us rather then make us hyperinsulinemic, hypertensive, hypertriglyceridemic, hyperuricemic, hyperglycemic, and when very young, hyperactive and inattentive, it appears long overdue.
I trust the editors will not let their advertisers dissuade them from implementing such steps.