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After the summary dismissal of the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) several months ago, protests about the violation of editorial independence appeared in the pages of many medical journals.^1,2,3,4 Despite strenuous denials by the AMA, the firing of the editor of JAMA because of the publication of a single article was an obvious infringement of the journal's editorial independence. In an editorial written soon after his dismissal, I described the episode as an ominous precedent.⁵ Responses to that editorial (which appear in this issue of the Journal^6,7), as well as the comments . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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