Healthy Skepticism Library item: 4300

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Publication type: Journal Article

No free lunches here
Lancet 1992; 340:365

Abstract:

A book offers pharmaceutical companies advice as to how to get articles published in medical journal, e.g., disguising the fact that the company is behind the offer of a review article, not using the company’s address and paying for lunch for the medical journal editor.

Keywords:
*news story/United Kingdom/company supplied articles/ ghost writing/PROMOTION DISGUISED: GHOST-WRITING AND JOURNAL ARTICLES