Today's NY Times article on Ghostwriting is concerning.
Essentially, the problem here is that Medical Science has seen a corruption. Review articles are often the way scientists in any field stay abrest of information. There are always communications of new breakthroughs, but reviews aggregate information (like this blog) and add some analysis.
Signing off on an article written by an industry takes pushing drugs to a new level. It distorts science. Furthermore, we no longer know what we can trust and what we cannot. Doctors are now completely lost.
I do not necessarily think PhRMA is the source of all evil. Their drugs are often useful. But, practices that distort basic knoweldge is quite egregious.
Paul Testa also provides a great analysis at New America's New Health Dialogue.
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