from SLATE's news summary today:The Wall Street Journal notices that
many articles in scientific journals carry the byline of top-flight
academics but are actually written by ghostwriters in the pay of drug
companies. Not that there's anything wrong with that, insists one
drug company exec.
Rampton, Sheldon and John Stauber. 2000. Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry
Manipulates
Science and Gambles With Your Future (NY: J P Tarcher).
this book does an excellent job covering that crap.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:11:00AM -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
from SLATE's news summary