Stop Scientific Ghostwriting

Discover how medical ethics breach occurs when doctors approve ghostwritten papers for drug companies, risking public trust in medicine.

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From The New York Times:

A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation’s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies — articles that were carefully calibrated to help the manufacturers sell more products. Experts in medical ethics condemn this practice as a breach of the public trust. Yet many universities have been slow to recognize the extent of the problem, to adopt new ethical rules or to hold faculty members to account. Those universities may not have much longer to get their houses in order before they find themselves in trouble with Washington.

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