Volume 187 - Issue 7
Statements of competing interest notably absent
Author: Ross B Holland
Med J Aust 2007; 187 (7): 422. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01320.x
Published online: 1 October 2007
Published online: 1 October 2007
To the Editor: In your recent supplement on spirituality and health, I note that none of the authors cited competing interests. However, several authors gave their affiliations as Loma Linda University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a fundamentalist Christian sect with strong evangelical and millenarian beliefs. I also note the financial support given to the publication by the same church. Does the above not constitute “competing interests”?