Revealed: how drug firms 'hoodwink' medical journals: Pharmaceutical giants hire ghostwriters to produce articles - then put doctors' names on them
One field where ghostwriting is becoming an increasing problem is psychiatry. [...]
Richard Smith, editor of the British Journal of Medicine, admitted ghostwriting was a 'very big problem' .
'We are being hoodwinked by the drug companies. The articles come in with doctors' names on them and we often find some of them have little or no idea about what they have written,' he said.
