Francis Collins hailed it as a "new era of clarity and transparency in the management of financial conflicts of interest" (S. J. Rockey and F. S. Collins /. Am. Med. Assoc. 303,2400-2402; 2010). But the director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) may have spoken too soon when he described a new rule, proposed last year, that would require universities and medical schools to publicly disclose online any financial arrangements that they believe could unduly influence the work of their NIH-funded researchers. Nature has learned that a cornerstone of that transparency drive - a series of publicly accessible websites detailing such financial conflicts - has now been dropped. "They have pulled the rug out from under this," says Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen, a consumer-protection organization based in Washington DC. "It greatly diminishes the amount of vigilance that the public can exercise over financially conflicted research being funded by the NIH." It will also make it more difficult for "scholars to study the effects of conflicts of interest in universities", adds Sheldon Krimsky, who studies science ethics at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.
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机译：弗朗西斯·柯林斯（Francis Collins）将其誉为“金融利益冲突管理中明确和透明的新时代”（S. J. Rockey和F. S. Collins / Am。Med。Assoc。303,2400-2402; 2010）。但是，美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）所长在描述去年提出的一项新规定时可能讲得太早了，该规定将要求大学和医学院在网上公开披露他们认为可能会不适当地影响财务状况的任何财务安排。 NIH资助的研究人员的工作。 《自然》杂志了解到，透明化驱动力的基石-一系列详细描述此类财务冲突的可公开访问的网站-现在已被删除。位于华盛顿特区的消费者保护组织Public Citizen的健康研究小组主任西德尼·沃尔夫（Sidney Wolfe）说：“他们从这件事中撤了出来。” “这大大减少了公众对由美国国立卫生研究院资助的财务冲突研究可以行使的警惕性。”马萨诸塞州波士顿塔夫茨大学医学院研究科学伦理的谢尔顿·克里姆斯基补充说，这也将使“学者们研究大学中利益冲突的影响”更加困难。
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