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When Dr. E. Ratcliffe Anderson, the American Medical Association's executive vice president, announced on January 15, 1999, that he had fired the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), he said that an important factor in his decision was the publication of a research article on the sexual attitudes of college students. It was not just the content of the article that was at issue, he said, but the fact that the article had been advanced for publication ahead of schedule with the intent of influencing a major political debate. In this case, the issue studied was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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