Is SciRep the equivalent of "Op-eds"?
As for one of the senior authors filing a patent for commercialize probiotics for autism, shouldn't there be a mandatory disclosure in their papers that have a conflict of interest?!
As for one of the senior authors filing a patent for commercialize probiotics for autism, shouldn't there be a mandatory disclosure in their papers that have a conflict of interest?!
In this article the patent applications are disclosed in the Competing Interests section. The readers can draw their own conclusions from those. It would be very unusual for a journal to not demand a declaration of conflicting interests.