The Wall Street Journal seems to have an article every week discussing conflicts of interest in medicine. These articles cover doctors who are writing scholarly articles without disclosing that their financial ties, and ones where doctors are promoting medical devices without disclosing to patients that they profit from them. Today's Journal covers Emory professor Charles Nemeroff:

The editor of the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, Charles Nemeroff, is stepping down after he wrote a favorable review of a new device for treating depression that didn't disclose his financial ties to the device's maker.

The journal, which carried the article, has published a correction citing Dr. Nemeroff's ties to the device maker and those of the article's other eight authors. In addition to Dr. Nemeroff, seven of the authors were academics who serve as consultants to the maker of the device, and one was an employee of the company, Cyberonics Inc., of Houston. The authors' relationships to Cyberonics were reported in the The Wall Street Journal last month.

All nine authors of the article had financial conflicts? One was an employee? Rev. Dr., just read the Journal for a month, and you'll begin to believe that these problems pervade science. Is it time to give up our trust in medical researchers?