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scientific objectivity redux

from SLATE's news summary today:>The Wall Street Journal notices that
"many" articles in scientific journals carry the byline of top-flight
academics but "are actually written by ghostwriters in the pay of drug
companies." Not that there's anything wrong with that, insists one
drug company exec. Authors "have to sign off on everything," he
pointed out, adding, "This is properly viewed as a way to more
efficiently make the transition from raw data to finished
manuscript."<

http://www.slate.com/id/2132151/
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Jim Devine
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let
people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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