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A paper studying the incidence of cancer at IBM fabs has sparked an author boycott of an Elsevier health journal.
A paper studying the incidence of cancer at IBM fabs has sparked an author boycott of an Elsevier health journal.

Richard Clapp and Rebecca Johnson of Boston University submitted the paper to "Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine". The paper is a study of IBM mortality records released as the result of a court order in long-running litigation between the company and its former employees and their families.

The guest editor for the proposed November 2004 issue of the Elsevier publication, Dr Joe LaDou of the University of California at San Francisco, had wanted to include the paper but the publisher rejected it on the grounds that it is research and only reviews are published in the journal. La Dou challenges this and has called for an author boycott of the issue. The web site for "Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine" now lists "Particulates and Asthma" as the topic of its November 2004 issue.

Elsevier denies that IBM has exerted any pressure. IBM admits that it sees the paper as being flawed but also says that it has not tried to stop publication. After winning a jury verdict in February in a case involving two workers at IBM fabs in East Fishkill, New York, IBM has since settled a number of other cases. The majority have so far involved hard disk production in San Jose, California. Another East Fishkill case was settled in March just before the jury selection process was due to start.

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