Comments on: A day in the life of a medical ghostwriter https://ethicalnag.org/2011/03/12/day-in-the-life-ghostwriter/ Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: MD Anon https://ethicalnag.org/2011/03/12/day-in-the-life-ghostwriter/comment-page-1/#comment-10921 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:38:56 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=4134#comment-10921 Leo – I’ve heard the same thing, with great protestations from my drug reps that this is OLD NEWS because these kinds of things happened only in the long ago past, but I suspect that what they (drug companies, the ghostwriters they hire, the university professors who fraudulently pretend to be the real authors, and the journal editors who willingly publish these papers) WANT us to believe is that medical ghostwriting is merely ancient history and no longer happens anymore.

But there is simply too much money at stake for this to be true.

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]]> By: Leo https://ethicalnag.org/2011/03/12/day-in-the-life-ghostwriter/comment-page-1/#comment-10905 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:38:09 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=4134#comment-10905 I’d read that this practice of medical ghostwriting has been essentially phased out for the past decade (a drug rep told me this, mind you!) but just a few weeks ago came across a medmal suit citing recently published journal articles funded by the drugmaker involved. There are over 40 journals targeting general practitioners alone – many of which will happily publish papers that would attract more scrutiny (and conflict of interest disclosure) if they were submitted to BMJ, NEJM, JAMA, etc.

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