Of Sophists and Spin-Doctors: Industry-Sponsored Ghostwriting and the Crisis of Academic Medicine
Of Sophists and Spin-Doctors: Industry-Sponsored Ghostwriting and the Crisis of Academic Medicine
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诡辩家和旋转医生：行业赞助的代笔和学术医学的危机
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2010
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L. McHenry
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L. McHenry
医学期刊的代笔已成为导致医学学术可信度问题的一个主要但基本上是看不见的因素。在本文中，我认为药品营销目标和医疗传播公司在代写文章中的使用构成了一种新的诡辩形式。在识别了三种不同类型的医学代笔之后，我调查了文献中已知的代笔案例，并解释了对学术医学和患者造成的危害。最后，我概述了解决该问题并恢复医学文献完整性的步骤。
Ghostwriting for medical journals has become a major, but largely invisible, factor contributing to the problem of credibility in academic medicine. In this paper I argue that the pharmaceutical marketing objectives and use of medical communication firms in the production of ghostwritten articles constitute a new form of sophistry. After identifying three distinct types of medical ghostwriting, I survey the known cases of ghostwriting in the literature and explain the harm done to academic medicine and to patients. Finally, I outline steps to address the problem and restore the integrity of the medical literature.