Legal experts call for severe sanctions against scientists who ‘guest author’ papers written by drugs companies. By Ian Sample, Science Correspondent Doctors and scientists who put their names to medical articles they have not written should be charged with professional misconduct and fraud, according to legal experts. The proposals aim to stamp out the shady business […]
Beware the ghost(writer)s of medical research
By Dr. Marc-André Gagnon and Dr. Sergio Sismondo, Expert Advisors – EvidenceNetwork.ca OTTAWA, and KINGSTON, ON, June 16, 2011/ Troy Media/ – The medical research world has been concerned about the problem of ghostwriting for more than a decade. The issue has been repeatedly raised in the mainstream media over the past few years, with […]
Time to end the worst practice in medicine
By William Campbell Douglass II, MD Dear Friend, Next time you run out of toilet paper, reach for the nearest medical journal. In one of the greatest scandals of modern medicine, Big Pharma is using ghostwriters and shady third-party companies to secretly buy its way into the pages of what are supposed to be respectable […]
