Medical Whistleblowers' Roundtable

PLoS Medicine just published a summary of a round-table discussion by notable whistleblowers about pharmaceutical companies' research an...

Media Reports on How Pharmaceutical Companies May Manipulate Information

Newspapers have become interested, again, in the issue of pharmaceutical companies manipulating information supplied to the public or health...

Ghosts of Days Long Past

I have managed to track back the ghost-writing story to at least 1993. In 1993, an editorial appeared in Lancet entitled "Ghost With a ...

Another Ghost Writing Update

Another update on ghost writing... First, I have put below something by Ted Harding about how to find the report from the UK House of Common...

Ghosts Busted: Another Update

New World Association of Medical Editors Policy The World Association of Medical Editors issued a new policy statement on ghostwriting . Its...

Ghosts Busted: Some Additional Sources

Here is some additional background on the Journal of General Internal Mediciine / RcComms /AstraZeneca ghost writing story. The World Associ...

More evidence of ghostwriting

Yet more on ghost writing of scientific papers as posted here and here : Quoting a New York Times article, Evidence in Vioxx Suits Shows In...

Additional ghostbusting thoughts

The revelation about "ghost writing" and false accreditation in the Journal of General Internal Medicine , a practice apparently...

Ghosts Busted

The Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) has released early a very important article about how pharmaceutical companies infiltrate th...