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This is all about an issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease that's dedicated to "Therapeutic Opportunities for Caffeine in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Ne
by gjm11 16y ago
This is all about an issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease that's dedicated to "Therapeutic Opportunities for Caffeine in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders".
You can find the whole issue online here: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/t13614762731/ http://iospress.metapress.com/content/t13614762731/
This special issue arose from a meeting held in Lisbon, in July 2009, on "Caffeine and the Brain".
The meeting, and this special issue of the journal, were sponsored by the Associado Industrial e Comercial do Cafe: the Industrial and Commercial Coffee Association.
It is claimed that this organization "generously financed both the meeting and this special issue while leaving full scientific independence to all contributors". Even if that's perfectly true, I suggest that there might be just a teeny bit of selection bias in the papers in this issue of the journal.
[EDITED to add: of course there is no mention of the sponsorship in the PhysOrg article. Why is it that every single time I see a PhysOrg link on HN there's something rather wrong with it?]
- rfrey 16y agoThanks for pointing that out - I did a cursory look for obvious industry connections and didn't see it. I should have looked harder! It's important to be aware of where the money is coming from. That said, the journal is peer reviewed, and this sort of sponsorship is not uncommon for either journals or conferences. One would dismiss a wide swath of research if one concentrated more on funding sources than quality of data. (Not that you were doing that, just sayin'.)