Wyeth Used Ghostwriters To Place Over 40 "Scientific" Articles In Medical Journals

WildBoots

"Documents unsealed as part of a lawsuit against drug giant Wyeth Pharmaceuticals reveal that the company used ghostwriters to prepare at least 40 medical journal articles promoting the use of its hormone-replacement drug Prempro".

http://www.naturalnews.com/029160_medical_journals_ghostwriters.html


I've a sneaking suspicion that this sort of thing happens regularly, what say you?

George Orwell 1982

Too serious for AH.

stovelid

Who they gonna call?

Abrasax

George Orwell 1982 wrote: »

Too serious for AH.

George Orwell, huh?

Ghostwriter shill, methinks.

Podge_irl

If it's a decent journal it should be properly peer reviewed anyway.

discus

WildBoots wrote: »

"Documents unsealed as part of a lawsuit against drug giant Wyeth Pharmaceuticals reveal that the company used ghostwriters to prepare at least 40 medical journal articles promoting the use of its hormone-replacement drug Prempro".

http://www.naturalnews.com/029160_medical_journals_ghostwriters.html


I've a sneaking suspicion that this sort of thing happens regularly, what say you?

Wow.

That's ****ing disgraceful. Shame on the academics and doctors who put their names on "scientific" papers written by others, let alone for cash.

Daemos

I thought it said Ghostbusters

discus

Podge_irl wrote: »

If it's a decent journal it should be properly peer reviewed anyway.

Doesn't the author give a list of appointed reviewers?

My name is URL

Anyone that doesn't realize the massive level of conspiracy going on in the Big Pharma industry is an idiot.

Source for this story is less than credible however =p

YFlyer

discus wrote: »

Doesn't the author give a list of appointed reviewers?

Don't think so. The journal submits the draft to the reviewers.

Its the ghostwriting prior to submitting the drafts to the journals that is the problem here.

DerekDGoldfish

There was a very interesting book(a lot of which is a combination of his guarian articles) written by Ben Goldacre called "Bad Science" which discussed the likes of dodgy medical testing procedures like this and also the medias misinterpretation of science and all the homeeopaty bollox as well.

Id recomend it

starbelgrade

You'd think that someone would have copped on to the fact that all the journals were signed off by someone called Casper.

Einhard

Do the ghost writers just write up the legitimate results of the trials and experiments in a more polished style than the researchers, or are they paid to embellish and invent? I see nothing wrong with the former, and if it were the latter, surely it would have been spotted by the editorial board and the readers by now? Looks like a bit of a storm in a teacup tbh.

bleg

lawl

Natural news is a website full of complete and utter horse****e.

Post this in Health Sciences, please. Let us debate it seriously there.

bleg

Why don't they give specific sources?

Google search below:

http://www.google.ie/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Wyeth+Used+Ghostwriters+To+Place+Over+40+%22Scientific%22+Articles+In+Medical+Journals&qscrl=1

The dishonesty of pharmaceutical companies pales in insignificance to herbalists, homeopathists and other quacks.

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