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Was BMJ dead wrong to print critical obituary?

April 26, 2017bmj critical dead obituary print wrong

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Was BMJ dead wrong to print critical obituary?

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Naomi Marks Brighton, UK Mere hours after an obituary for Dr. David Horrobin appeared in the British Medical Journal Apr. 19, eBMJ’s rapid-response function was humming. In death as in life, Horrobin the founder of Scotia Pharmaceuticals and the journal Medical Hypotheses was at the centre of controversy. This time, though, it was the proper role of obituaries in medical journals, and not the relative merits of evening primrose oil, that was at issue.