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Category Archives: Medical ghostwriting
When you use bad science to sell drugs
How Big Pharma improperly uses ‘data fishing’ to minimize the bad parts and beef up the good parts of the scientific ‘research’ needed to sell more of their drugs. Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, In the research lab, Medical ghostwriting
Tagged data fishing, marketing-based medicine
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How are hockey-playing goons the same as “puzzled” medical journal editors?
There is clearly no organizational will among medical journals to end the fraudulent scandal of ghostwriting – or they would have acted to ban it by now. Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, Medical ghostwriting
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All bark, no bite: new Big Pharma trials/ghostwriting guidelines
What is the point? Trade group’s new ethics guidelines are voluntary, with no penalty for violation of recommendations. Continue reading
Posted in Big Pharma, Medical ghostwriting
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Medical ghostwriting and ‘Guest Authorship’: twins separated at birth?
Vancouver conference audience demands “naming and shaming” of academics who fraudulently claim to be authors of ghostwritten medical journal articles. Continue reading
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