Stopping the rot in nutrition science

Margetts, Barrie

doi:10.1079/phn2006947

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“…Currently though, as indicated in a previous editorial, we have a big problem of who calls the research shots 13 . Thus, a recent review in the British Medical Journal has shown that of 289 frequently cited articles in the Web of Science database between 1994 and 2003, 18 out of the 32 most cited trials published after 1999 were funded by industry alone 14 .…”

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Nutrition, public health, and the new nutrition science: Academic thought, professional action

Margetts¹

2006

Public Health Nutr.

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This editorial is an attempt to encourage us to think about the balance between evidence and action in public health nutrition, so as to become much more effective as professionals working in the public interest. It is also about a theme that has been on my mind for some time now: the distinction between thinking as academic and acting as a professional. The issues that confront us are awesome. Throughout the world malnutrition in the classic definition is receding only very slowly, if at all. And as I write, new official figures show that roughly a quarter of 11-15-year-old schoolchildren in England are clinically obese, a figure that has almost doubled in the last decade, which is described by Colin Waine of the UK National Obesity Forum as 'a public health timebomb' 1. If this is war, we are not winning. Many would say we are losing. A theme of this editorial is that our weapons are ineffective.

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“…We do have some elephants in our room. An earlier editorial this year ventilated the issue of fraud in nutrition science 13 . And there are other issues that we now urgently need to discuss and hopefully agree among ourselves in professional forums.…”

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Nutrition, public health, and the new nutrition science: Academic thought, professional action

Margetts¹

2006

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“…In a recent editorial I commented on a number of issues related to fraud and the way industry uses scientists 5 . This has led us to ensure that the journal is a part of the wider publishing community that agrees to and follows a code of best practice 6,7 .…”

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Leadership and responsibility in Public Health Nutrition: time to get serious

Margetts¹

2006

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Nutrition. Congratulations to Professor Lluís Serra Majem and his colleagues for taking the initiative and organising this meeting. The breadth of content and the range of participants are testimony to the relevance and importance of having such a meeting. As my time as Editor-in-Chief draws to a close, I reflect on where Public Health Nutrition is at the moment, and what we need to focus on in the future. In our first issue in 1998 we stated that one of our aims was to provide an international forum that facilitates a dialogue between theory, research and practice 1 .

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“…To strive to let others get due credit and to have the ability to see a good compromise and to listen. A good leader recognises that ethical aspects of the science need to be highlighted, as well as transparency in our collaboration with stakeholders, as emphasised recently by Barrie Margetts 12 .…”

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Challenges for Public Health Nutrition are immense – to be a good public health nutrition leader requires networking and collaboration

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2006

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Stopping the rot in nutrition science

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Nutrition, public health, and the new nutrition science: Academic thought, professional action

Nutrition, public health, and the new nutrition science: Academic thought, professional action

Leadership and responsibility in Public Health Nutrition: time to get serious

Challenges for Public Health Nutrition are immense – to be a good public health nutrition leader requires networking and collaboration

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