PUBLICATION of articles in biomedical journals disseminates the results of scientific research, which ultimately advances knowledge and improves public health. PUBLICATION also benefits the authors and the pharmaceutical companies who sponsor research. The benefit to authors is in career promotion and securing funding. The benefit to pharmaceutical companies is influencing doctors to prescribe their products. It follows that the greater the number of PUBLICATIONs the greater will be the benefit to authors and sponsors. This scenario drives temptation to publish data from the same research study more than once. Consequently rePUBLICATION of entire articles or information contained in articles is not uncommon. The problem is such PUBLICATION can be unethical and against the public interest, as it was in the second study described below. It also wastes the time of editors and reviewers in processing the papers as well as readers’ time in reading what they have read before.