Senator assails ghostwriting
Administrators say Yale professors do not publish for drug companies
The Yale School of Medicine will respond by Dec. 8 to a letter from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asking about the school’s policy on medical ghostwriting, whereby companies publish articles under researchers’ names, School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern said Wednesday.
In the letter, which was sent to Yale and nine other leading medical schools, Grassley pointed out the similarity between students who plagiarize in their papers and medical researchers who attach their names to articles and papers they did not write.
Grassley wrote that he was concerned that articles...
I'd like to see this paired with a study on lobbyists ghostwriting for senators and congressmen....
Isn't the situation described here actually the "reverse ghostwriting"? Pharmaceutical companies in fact hire other researchers (the real ghostwriters) to write the study/paper/review and then the company pays a nice honorarium to people somewhat known in the field and publishes under their names.
Good thinking! Further, Yale pharmaceutical department where Annie Le was a graduate student is a “pharmaceutical company” itself.
As I recall, this kind of "ghostwriting" was rather rare at Yale. At Harvard, where I trained, "ghostwriting" was much more prevalent. In fact, it's how some became a "thought leader." Their "academic career" consisted of adding their name and midly revising a pre-written paper from data they got from FedEx. Then, they would always get quoted by Newspapers and become "famous." We used to call these talking heads "drug/devise company whores." I am glad the truth is coming out.
Does Yale have the moral courage to clean up its corruption? (Just Google “Yale Pharmacology”) If Yale does, Yale can finally exceed Harvard.
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I read as far as "Sen. Charles Grassley" and stopped. I shall assume the rest of the article describes yet another way in which Grassley has lashed out against Yale/the Ivy League and is trying to regulate us into the ground, since by his count, making a name/money for yourself is only genuine if you're from the midwest and don't drive luxury cars.
Yale is a nonprofit educational institute not a for-profit cooperation. Once you graduate you CAN make money for yourself big time. Let us keep Yale free of corruption and a model of other Ivy’s. Yale has plenty research money from NIH and endowment.
I rarely agree with Sen. Charles Grassley, but I am with him on this one.
Who ghost-wrote Palin's book? Is goshdarn a word?