A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nationâ??s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies â?? articles that were carefully calibrated to help the manufacturers sell more products.
Quoted: â??Just three days ago, I got a request to be the author of a ghostwritten article about the effectiveness of a cholesterol-lowering drug,â? Dr. James H. Stein, professor of cardiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, said this month. â??This happens all the time.â? He declined to attach his name to the paper.