To the Editor: It’s all very difficult isn’t it? Teasing out the issues around impartiality, weighing evidence and competing interests? Wain wrote a recent editorial for the Journal, and included a list of his “competing interests”:
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Correspondence: lbandler@med.usyd.edu.au
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