How ghost writers pushed bad drugs from Wyeth

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Telling lies for Big Pharma pays nicely, according to a new report in a peer-reviewed open access journal.

Wyeth, which makes menopausal hormone therapies, “used ghostwriters to create more than 50 journal articles with a favorable spin on the drugs,” even after the risks of the drugs was mounting, according to the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute.
More, via the Hastings Center:

Wyeth paid DesignWrite $25,000 each for articles that reported on clinical trials and $20,000 each for 20 review articles on the unproven benefits of hormone therapy, such as that it may help protect against Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

via Bioethics Forum – Ghostwriters in the Hormone Therapy Machine.