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The editors of medical and scientific journals always ask authors of papers to declare any financial conflicts of interest (COIs) related to their research. There has recently been a shift … toward asking them to disclose any potential perceived COI…

Medical Conflicts of interest

… I once wrote a paper for a medical law journal about water fluoridation, in which I argued that adding fluoride to water was medication and was therefore not permitted by the law… I have moderate fluorosis (staining of the teeth) as a result of receiving too much fluoride as a child (although not because of water fluoridation). Was this something that I ought to declare?

… my argument was not actually predicated on the harms of fluoridation but on the fact that it is clearly medication, when the law does not permit mass medication of this type…

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