Comments on: Medical ghostwriting: if you’re not alarmed, maybe you’re just not paying attention http://ethicalnag.org/2009/09/04/ghostwriting1/ Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed Sat, 02 Jun 2012 22:40:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ken Axel http://ethicalnag.org/2009/09/04/ghostwriting1/comment-page-1/#comment-4465 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:21:26 +0000 http://carolynthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-4465 “One way to stop it would be if the real authors were punished in some way. But the academics who are complicit in it all never seem to be punished at all.”

And that is the issue. Where are the sanctions against the physicians and scientists who are conspiring with the drug companies, knowing full well that the clear intent is to make it look like they are the true authors of these published studies? Without the addition of the name of a respected academic as “author”, journal articles submitted by medical ghostwriters would never see the light of day.

It is fraud pure and simple – the universities that hire these frauds yet do nothing to stop this practices are as guilty as the rest of the lot.

]]> By: Trent in NYC http://ethicalnag.org/2009/09/04/ghostwriting1/comment-page-1/#comment-3648 Mon, 17 May 2010 18:30:57 +0000 http://carolynthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-3648 I had never even heard of this topic until now. I am disgusted — but I don’t know which of the guilty parties I’m most disgusted by: the drug companies? the doctors who pretend to be the authors of this so-called “research” which is nothing more than drug sales promo material they did not write? the universities who must be aware that their senior faculty are “on the take” like this? the editors of the medical journals? Where is this going to end?

]]> By: UK Scope http://ethicalnag.org/2009/09/04/ghostwriting1/comment-page-1/#comment-513 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:19:37 +0000 http://carolynthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-513 Thank you for bringing the subject of medical ghostwriting to our attention. Most people believe that this really affects only prescription drugs – but even over the counter medicines you buy at your local pharmacy/chemist’s shop are promoted in this fashion.

]]> By: Randi W. http://ethicalnag.org/2009/09/04/ghostwriting1/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:59:35 +0000 http://carolynthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-340 This IS alarming and disgusting.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I had no idea this despicable practice is actually going on with impunity.

]]> By: Gary Wu http://ethicalnag.org/2009/09/04/ghostwriting1/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:23:30 +0000 http://carolynthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-99 Okay, now I am alarmed…. Thanks for this. It throws everybody, even legit researchers and journals, into question now.

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