{"id":7324,"date":"2011-04-13T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2011-04-13T22:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T02:57:57","slug":"a-study-in-pollen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/13\/a-study-in-pollen\/","title":{"rendered":"a study in pollen…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Doctor Francis Collins responded to POGO’s letter on ghost-writing in February, although I didn’t think<\/u> <\/a>he had gone far enough, I was impressed that he was at least taking the problem seriously. <\/p>\n

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As I’ve perused parts of the psychopharmacology literature, I’ve been aware that I read the acknowledgments before reading the articles themselves, looking for the tell-tale "editorial support" credit that now means "ghost-writer" to me. I didn’t read all the STAR*D<\/font><\/strong> articles. I doubt that many have [including the authors]. PubMed has 123 articles with "star*d" in the title and there are plenty more than that. But as I ran across some of the lesser articles, I frequently saw "…acknowledge editorial support from Jon Kilner, M.S., <\/sup>M.A." Then I ran across one where Jon Kilner was actually the second author, so I decided to look him up. It wasn’t that hard – just a routine google search lead me to http:\/\/kilnerwriter.net\/<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a>. Entering the site, the right button took me to his science fiction novel Songs of Ice and Darkness<\/em><\/strong> and the left button took me to his Professional Medical & Scientific Writing\/Editing Service<\/strong>. I went left. It’s what you’d expect – he does medical writing. Duh! But I didn’t go far enough. I mentioned him to someone else who suggested I click around some more. Like his CV<\/strong><\/a><\/u> starts off with:<\/div>\n