Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Vioxx Shows US How the Pharmaceutical Companies Tell Lies

The Vioxx lawsuit demonstrates that scientific articles on Vioxx were written by pharmaceutical employees but the lead authorship was given to academic physicians who didn't write and sometimes didn't read the material. This was done w/o mentioning who actually wrote the articles and that money from Merck was given.Ghost writing and guest authorship are destroying the basis of academic pharmaceutical research!

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

I blame Milli Vanilli on this one...