THE GHOSTS OF PREMPRO

Wyeth's Hired Hands

As James notes in the thread below, there is an unusually detailed article in today's NYT about the extent of ghost-written articles used to promote the use of Prempro, including numerous meta-analyses, etc. Nothing new about ghostwriting. But what seems unusual (but may not be) here is the extent of it, creating the illusion of medical consensus, as well as the role of the journals themselves and their publisher in all of this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/health/research/05ghost.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y