[mrsD]

I don't know where to put this article, so I am sharing it here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/bu...?_r=2&src=tptw

This is about a TEXTBOOK written for family doctors that used two psychiatrist's names as a "front"...in reality it was written by GlaxoSmithKline employees. How to treat mental illness in a family doctor setting!

These types of activities really blow my mind!

[tulip girl]

Thanks for the article about my old friend Charles N. co author of this text. There are TWO guilty parties here - GSK and the esteemed doctors. Money is the name of the game for both parties. Any one can be bought if the price is high enough.

TG

[just_me_77]

Question:

I understand in a "Free Market" economy, supply and demand should be the only factor determining the price of something. PWP make up only a limited yet growing piece of the proverbial pie; but why do they have to keep playing games with "Ghost Writers" who are getting paid with the profits Big Pharma makes over the blood, sweat and tears of the very people they are trying to help with their drugs in the first place?

One word seems to keep coming to mind: greed, pure and simple.

[olsen]

Letter to Francis Collins, MD, Director of NIH

...based on documents in our possession, we have discovered that the NIH gave $66.8 million in grants over the last five years to a handful of researchers who used ghostwriters for scientific publications....

http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/lette...-20101129.html

[tulip girl]

This not only puts Big Pharma in a bad light but also shows the dark side of research. I know one of the researchers and have watched him leave a trail of ruined careers as he climbed to the pinnacle of his own career thru sheer greed, sheer egotistical, sheer power seeking behavior. Getting credit for writting a book looks great on a well padded CV. Power and arrogance does get you the money.

TG