Science for Sale: Wyeth Paid for Positive Reviews of HRT

More on this later today, but I wanted to post this article from today's New York Times about Wyeth's use of ghostwriters to pen positive reviews of its hormone replacement therapy drugs, which were later shown by a large federal study to cause invasive breast cancer and a host of other serious problems. These weren't any old reviews--these were articles in respected journals. Ghostwriting in the pharmaceutical industry is itself invasive and appallingly unethical, and yet journal editors are still being blindsided by these compromised reviews.

Read the article here.