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Institutions receiving research grants from the National Institutes of Health should be required to do more to police industry-sponsored ghostwriting of medical journal articles, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a letter to NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD.
Grassley Calls on NIH to Stiffen Ghostwriting Rules
Seeded on Fri Jul 9, 2010 11:06 AM EDT
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NIH-funded research, that your tax dollars support...has been screwing you. me and the medical industry by undermining truth and science. They should be ashamed of themselves...heads should roll! There is no excuse for FRAUD!
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#1 - Fri Jul 9, 2010 11:10 AM EDTStiffen
--as in SQUASH. What other "professional" ethics allows the seller to write their own reviews, fund consumer advocacy groups for the purposes of promotion, fund their own government approval "studies", write their own legislation, and advertise nationally while applying for approval? Oh yeah and pay professional colleagues (doctors) to write prescriptions for them.
In EVERY other "business" this is called CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. In pharma, its called business as usual.
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#2 - Fri Jul 9, 2010 11:33 AM EDTThey are not getting close to my body...in any way...yuck! Nasty!
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I wouldn't be opposed to good writers assisting scientists and academics, who may not be so gifted in that area, but they should not alter content, and should, of course, be cited as contributors. Since I mad some money writing papers in college.
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#3 - Fri Jul 9, 2010 7:54 PM EDTThese guys are committing plagiarism (fraud) to push product and get the goodies....not what you were doing.
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I understand, I was attempting to highlight the difference in good "ghost writing", and what's going on here. This is fiction, not really "ghost writing".
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I wouldn't be opposed to good writers assisting scientists and academics
Its when the definition of "good" becomes tied to SALES that makes ghost writing a problem.
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Thank you for clarifying that...when I produced my thesis for grad school my study was based on statistics not the political (financial) attitude toward marketing.
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