McGill reprimands prof over ghostwriting scandal Failed to acknowledge DesignWrite’s work Montreal Gazette By AARON DERFEL August 5, 2011 McGill University has formally reprimanded senior professor and researcher Barbara Sherwin for failing to acknowledge a ghostwriter hired by drug company Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in a paper Sherwin wrote in 2000. However, the university has decided against […]
Johnson & Johnson to Settle Charge Over Drug’s Marketing New York Times By BLOOMBERG NEWS August 9, 2011 Johnson & Johnson reached an agreement in principle to settle a misdemeanor criminal charge related to the marketing of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. Prosecutors have been investigating the […]
I’m saying that being too prolific is a sign of being a pseudoscientist, and then I look at my own blog and see that I’ve got the same problem. Back in April, I went a bit overboard myself looking into personalized medicine in psychiatry: personalized medicine: the preface… personalized medicine: the concept… personalized medicine: BRAINnet… […]
Dr. Poses has a troubling post up at Healthcare Renewal about recent developments in important reform measures. He mentions a weakening of the FDA COI rules, a weakening of the NIH COI policies, and backing down from disbarring the Forest Laboratories CEO. All are disturbing developments. I’ve included his comments on the NIH COI policies: […]
I included as one of my criteria for membership in the fraternity of pseudoscientists having published "hundreds and hundreds of articles." So, I took a look at a couple of prime candidates – Drs. Charlie Nemeroff and John Rush. I was stunned by the numbers. For "Nemeroff CB" there are 639 articles listed in PubMed […]
More Antidepressants Are Given Without Diagnosis Pharmalot by Ed Silverman August 5th, 2011 Should a patient first be diagnosed with a psychiatric problem before receiving a prescription? Well, nearly 73 percent of antidepressants prescribed in the US in 2007 were generated without a psychiatric diagnosis, up from nearly 60 percent in 1996. And the percentage […]
While we were in Hawai’i, I had a new toy in my pocket – an iPhone. It periodically beeps when an email arrives. I get Google Alerts for a variety of things and this one came on top of a volcano [from a recent Miami Herald]: Medical studies show a strong correlation between an active […]
The article mentioned in the PLoS Blog [last post] ends with this suggestion: Why Does Academic Medicine Allow Ghostwriting? A Prescription for Reform Society by Jonathan Leo, Jeffrey R. Lacasse and Andrea N. Cimino 07/21/2011 ghost writer (n., orig. U.S.): a hack writer who does work for which another person takes the credit– Oxford English Dictionary … To improve the […]
So I get home from a three week trip to Hawaii and fire up my real computer. There are two Google Alerts from today blinking at the top of my email list: Ghostwriting – how does academic medicine justify it? Speaking of Medicine [PLOS Blog] by Jocalyn Clark August 5th, 2011 We’re always interested at […]
Ghostwriting, RICO And Fraud On The Court? Pharmalot By Ed Silverman August 3rd, 2011 The contentious debate over ghostwriting shows no sign of abating. Even the definition of ghostwriting – the mysterious practice in which an article lands in a medical journal with the name of an author who, as it turns out, had little […]