{"id":7027,"date":"2009-08-21T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pharma-mkting.com\/senator-grassley-sees-pharma-ghos\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:22:46","slug":"senator-grassley-sees-pharma-ghos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/senator-grassley-sees-pharma-ghos\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Grassley Sees Pharma Ghost Writing Problems. Do You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZiPiXEv_Q_g\/So6R9E8GMbI\/AAAAAAAACqY\/Ujn2mYlbCpg\/s1600-h\/SeeGhostWriteres.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 287px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/SeeGhostWriteres.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372391883983434162\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The New York Times recently reported (see <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.pharma-mkting.com\/showthread.php?t=19316\">here<\/a>): &#8220;A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation&#8217;s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies &#8212; articles that were carefully calibrated to help the manufacturers sell more products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has led a long-running investigation of conflicts of interest in medicine, is starting to put pressure on the National Institutes of Health to crack down on the practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, fellow pharma blogger Rich Meyer, doesn&#8217;t see things that way. &#8220;Medical journal articles sponsored by drug companies are part of marketing,&#8221; says Meyer. &#8220;That is a fact of a capitalist business that has to market to medical professionals. &#8216;Ghostwriting&#8217; has been around for over 20 years and is standard industry practice for the drug industries. I personally see nothing wrong with ghostwriting as long as it is made clear at the beginning of the article who wrote it and who endorses the content.&#8221; (see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofdtcmarketing.com\/files\/77eccb9aa4d8871835a71c8c501bde07-783.html\">Ghostwriting: What is right and wrong<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n<p>Before giving you my opinions, I would like to know what YOU think. To make that easy, I&#8217;ve created the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=qKiC_2bZJq90cErS_2brGQ_2fJpw_3d_3d\">Pharma-Sponsored Medical Journal Article Ghostwriting Survey<\/a>. Please take 2 minutes to answer a few short questions relating to medical article ghostwriting practices sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I&#8217;d like to know to what degree you agree or disagree with the following statements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical journal articles sponsored and ghostwritten by drug companies are a legitimate part of marketing to physicians.<\/li>\n<li>Drug companies provide ghostwriting services primarily because academic researchers are busy and some may not be skilled writers. I.e., it&#8217;s NOT a marketing tactic.<\/li>\n<li>There is nothing wrong with ghostwriting as long as it is made clear at the beginning of the article who wrote it and who endorses the content.<\/li>\n<li>Medical journal articles sponsored and ghostwritten by drug companies are often biased (eg, emphasize the benefits of a drug and de-emphasize the risks).<\/li>\n<li>Pharma-sponsored ghostwritten medical journal articles are ethically suspect when physicians are paid by the pharma company to add their names as authors even though they have not made a substantive contribution.<\/li>\n<li>Physicians would never sign on as an author of a ghostwritten article that they did not review thoroughly.<\/li>\n<li>Medical schools should prohibit their faculty, trainees and students from being authors or co-authors of articles written by employees of commercial entities if the author&#8217;s name or school title is used without substantive contribution.<\/li>\n<li>The federal government should revise research grant terms to prohibit grantees from being authors or co-authors of articles written by employees of commercial entities if the author&#8217;s name or grant title is used without substantive contribution.<\/li>\n<li>Most physicians do not care that medical journal articles are ghostwritten.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Results of this survey will be summarized in an issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.pharma-mkting.com\/\">Pharma Marketing News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your comments are confidential (anonymous) unless you specifically provide your contact information at the end of the survey and allow us to attribute comments to you personally.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the survey you will be able to access a de-identified summary of the results to date.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=7PkZR8J3F9B_2fq7zE_2fWvA0A_3d_3d\"><IMG alt=\"SURVEY: Pharma-Sponsored Medical Article Ghost Writing\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/banners\/GhostWriteSurvey_Banner-528x91.jpg\" width=528 Height=91 border=0><\/A><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=qKiC_2bZJq90cErS_2brGQ_2fJpw_3d_3d\">Take the survey here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times recently reported (see here): &#8220;A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation&#8217;s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies &#8212; articles that were carefully calibrated to help the manufacturers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[523,101,234],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senator Grassley Sees Pharma Ghost Writing Problems. 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