Taking a stand against the politicization of medical research: how 'swinging the pendulum' poses a hazard to clinical trials, study participants, and the progress of science

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA.
• ² VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, USA.
• ³ Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
• ⁶ Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁷ David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ⁸ Division of Infectious Disease, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York.
• ⁹ Department of Global Health, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.