Ghosts in the machine - medical ghostwriting

Fraud

Lacasse JR, Leo J (2010) Ghostwriting at Elite Academic Medical Centers in the United States. PLoS Med 7(2): e1000230. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000230


How drug firms hoodwink medical journals

Pharmaceutical giants hire ghostwriters to produce articles - then put doctors' names on them.





academic: Fraud
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000230


hoodwink: How drug firms hoodwink medical journals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/dec/07/health.businessofresearch