Nancy,
You wrote, "This is another good reason that we
need to apply especially strict standards to *every* study we read."

I think with ghost writing it becomes very difficult to apply standards
because in essence one is being lied to in regard to authorship.  The publisher and
the reader are at a great disadvantage.  One of the examples of ghost writing
involved Wyeth and the drug fen-phen (not sure correct spelling).  Quite a
number of women died directly from the use of this drug and a number of women
suffered damage to their hearts.  How much of this problem could have been
circumvented, if the research had not been ghost written?  We will never really
know.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC



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