(chronicle.com): PLoS Medicine, an open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science, will no longer accept papers "where support, in whole or in part, for the study or the researchers come from a tobacco company," the journal's editorial board has decided. In a strongly worded editorial published online today, the editors acknowledge that their stance might be criticized as moralistic, unscientific, and biased, but they add: "Like the two other PLoS journals that have recently adopted this policy, PLoS Biology and PLoS ONE, we feel that any potential criticisms and risks are preferable to supporting the tobacco industry's efforts to deflect attention from the harms of its products."
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