Senior Editor Sacked At The Lancet

The Lancet has fired senior editor Rhona MacDonald for what MacDonald said was a violation of the journal’s confidentiality policy, reports The Scientist.

MacDonald said that she was fired after sending out two versions of an editorial she’d written for the journal, a draft and the final version; she said she sent both versions to prove that editor Richard Horton, “changed the whole meaning of the editorial without giving me…the opportunity to make any comments or suggestions before the editorial went to press.”

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