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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 20 > Unmasking ghosts at medical journals

Unmasking ghosts at medical journals

Editors push for crackdown on company-sponsored articles

By Natasha Singer and Duff Wilson / The Bulletin
September 20, 2009

The scientific integrity of medical research has been clouded in recent years by articles that were drafted by drug company-sponsored ghostwriters and then passed off as the work of independent academic authors.

Yet the leading medical journals have continued to rely largely on an honor system....

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