{"id":590,"date":"2008-12-15T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/beware-big-pharmas-and-ghost-writers"},"modified":"2008-12-15T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T22:18:00","slug":"beware-big-pharmas-and-ghost-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/beware-big-pharmas-and-ghost-writers","title":{"rendered":"Beware Big Pharmas and Ghost Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wyeth\u2019s Use of Medical Ghostwriters Questioned<br \/>By DUFF WILSON<\/p>\n<p>Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, paid ghostwriters to produce medical journal articles favorable to its hormone replacement therapy <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Prempro<\/span>, according to Congressional letters seeking more information about the company\u2019s involvement in medical ghostwriting. At least one article was published even after a federal study found the drug raised the risk of breast cancer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/13\/business\/13wyeth.html?ref=business&amp;pagewanted=print\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/13\/business\/13wyeth.html?ref=business&amp;<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">pagewanted<\/span>=print<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t belabor my anti-big <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">pharma<\/span> feelings but let&#8217;s say I am not the least surprised by this.  Pay someone to write nice stuff &#8211; <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">hmmm<\/span>&#8230;good idea &#8211; except this is not some Hollywood star using a ghost writer but a company whose products can [and do] KILL you&#8230;and in fact they used a ghost writer after knowing that an <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">HRT<\/span> drug increased the risk of breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Nice people these suits at Wyeth &#8211; &#8220;profits above all&#8221; is the motto for most corporations..<\/p>\n<p>Message to users of the products?  &#8220;We don&#8217;t care about you at all &#8211; except for &#8211; buy buy buy our stuff &#8211; we only like your wallet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times Wyeth\u2019s Use of Medical Ghostwriters QuestionedBy DUFF WILSON Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, paid ghostwriters to produce medical journal articles favorable to its hormone replacement therapy Prempro, according to Congressional letters seeking more information about the company\u2019s involvement in medical ghostwriting. At least one article was published even after a federal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1096],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-using-ghost-writers-for-medical-research-write-ups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}