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1 PhD. Professor – FMUSP – University of São Paulo Medical School, Medical Investigations Lab (MIL) # 40. 2 PhD in Medicine – FMUSP – Professor – Department of Pediatrics – USP. Paper submitted to the BJORL-SGP (Publishing Management System – Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology) on February 26, 2009; and accepted on March 1, 2009. cod. 6292

This analysis of 229 editorials and opinion pieces published in science medical journals explores the affective discourses used to characterise so-called predatory publishing. Most (84%, n = 193) deploy one or more three related categories metaphorical figurative language (fear, fakery exploitation) strengthen their rhetorical case. paper examines deployment, co-occurrence amplification this ac...

The present submission is a letter to the editor. Hence, we did not include and abstract.

medical statistics (biostatistics), as a vital essential part of modem life, does raise some fundamental ethical issues. surprisingly, this aspect seems to have been totally ignored by books on medical ethics. this paper discusses how the statistical aspects affect the ethics. the relation between biostatistics and medical research is explored. all stages of a medical research exercise are vuln...

Medical statistics (biostatistics), as a vital essential part of modem life, does raise some fundamental ethical issues. Surprisingly, this aspect seems to have been totally ignored by books on medical ethics. This paper discusses how the statistical aspects affect the ethics. The relation between biostatistics and medical research is explored. All stages of a medical research exercise are ...

In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, ...