Tag: medical research ethics
Medical Ghostwriting: When an “Author” Is Not Necessarily an “Author”
Ghostwriting, which is prominent in the psychiatry literature, is a scam in which pharmaceutical companies use an academic sleight of hand to stump the naĂŻve reader. It is time for editors of the major medical journals to use the same standards of authorship found in the humanities and social sciences.
Fake Science and Checking Sources
The field of psychiatry is awash with systematic reviews, meta-analyses and other published articles proclaiming various discoveries. But can this research be trusted? Let's examine one such article, "Suicide prevention strategies revisited: 10-year-old review," in which the author claims that the "anti-suicidal effects of clozapine and lithium have been substantiated."
Molecular Fingerprints? On the Science and Ethics of Transcriptomic Research
Who were these people whose brains were used in Gandal et al.âs research? How did they live and die? How did the researchers gain permission to open their skulls and extract brain tissue for research purposes? For information on the samples, you have to take a look at every single study. Which is what I did.
What New Zealand’s “Unfortunate Experiment” Can Teach Us
From the Boston Review: In his new book Doctors in Denial: The Forgotten Women in the "Unfortunate Experiment," Ronald W. Jones chronicles the history of New...
âMedical Research: The Dangers to the Human Subjectsâ
Marcia Angell in the New York Review of Books writes about the inherent conflict in clinical trials between âthe search for scientific answers," on one hand, and âthe rights and welfare of human subjects,â on the other.
