Legal remedies for ghostwriting
Everyone agrees that ghostwriting in the medical literature is a bad thing. The question is what can be done to eradicate it. Professional medical writers’ organisations such as EMWA, AMWA, and ISMPP have done their bit by publishing guidelines and position statements and educating their members about ethical publication practices, and there is some evidence that those efforts are pushing things in the right direction, but it’s clear that they are not going to solve the problem by themselves and … Continue reading