Sylvia Miles
April 18th, 2008, 01:51 PM
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.vioxx18apr18,0,7944908.story
The news this week that Merck (http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/economy-business-finance/merck-%26-company-incorporated-ORCRP009787.topic) & Co. conducted research on its own drug and paid prominent scientists to lend their names to the studies came as no surprise to many people in medicine. Researchers and ethicists say scientists are often paid to be listed as authors of ghostwritten studies in scientific journals, a practice they say undermines the public's already sagging confidence in research.
what next? are they gonna tell us the War on Terror is all a hoax?
The news this week that Merck (http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/economy-business-finance/merck-%26-company-incorporated-ORCRP009787.topic) & Co. conducted research on its own drug and paid prominent scientists to lend their names to the studies came as no surprise to many people in medicine. Researchers and ethicists say scientists are often paid to be listed as authors of ghostwritten studies in scientific journals, a practice they say undermines the public's already sagging confidence in research.
what next? are they gonna tell us the War on Terror is all a hoax?