[PEN-L] scientific objectivity redux

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Devine
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.

Re: [PEN-L] scientific objectivity redux

2005-12-13 Thread Michael Perelman
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