Re: scientific objectivity redux

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rampton, Sheldon and John Stauber. 2000. Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates
Science and Gambles With Your Future (NY: J P Tarcher).

this book does an excellent job covering that crap.



On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:11:00AM -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
> 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/
> --
> 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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