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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaas van Dijk" data-source="post: 3582676" data-attributes="member: 115771">Anyone would like to comment on a draft in which I document evidence for partial behaviour by the publisher BMJ ( <a href="http://www.bmj.com/" target="_blank">http://www.bmj.com/</a> )? This behaviour of the publisher BMJ is directly related to our efforts to retract this fraudulent study on the Basra Reed Warbler (Al-Sheikhly et al. 2013, 2015). It is my aim to post this manuscript as preprint at one of the preprint servers (for example at BioRxiv, <a href="http://biorxiv.org/collection/scientific-communication-and-education" target="_blank">http://biorxiv.org/collection/scientific-communication-and-education</a> ). Please don't hesitate to contact me for a Word document with the full text (2700 words)."Evidence for partial behaviour at BMJ" Abstract "This case study documents an exception on the rule for research articles in the medical journal BMJ Open that the ICMJE disclosure forms of authors must be made available on request. I describe my attempts to get the form and I argue that its unavailability relates to personal conflicts of interest with the corresponding author about my efforts to retract a fatally flawed article on the Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis. I describe undisclosed potential conflicts of interest between this corresponding author and employees of publisher BMJ and I argue that partial behaviour by BMJ is the most plausible explanation for the unavailability of the form. The decision of BMJ not to comment on drafts is towards my opinion the strongest argument that this view is founded."Klaas van Dijk / Groningen / The Netherlands / klaas.vdijk AT hetnet.nl</blockquote>

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