Ben Goldacre - a British epidemiologist - has done a lot of work on this area, but focused on the Pharmaceutical industry and their practices in running/publish

Ben Goldacre - a British epidemiologist - has done a lot of work on this area, but focused on the Pharmaceutical industry and their practices in running/publishing the results of drug trials. He's got a great blog at http://www.badscience.net/ http://www.badscience.net/ and a book called Bad Pharma.