> Valerie writes:
> I believe that ghostwriting is when the author of the study is paid to put
> his or her name on the study.  The author is usually well-known in the field.
> The author does not participate in the study and in some cases never ever sees
> what he/she supposedly wrote.  The author is used for his/her name in order to
> get the study published.  I do believe that ethically this is a cause for
> great concern.

You are right, this *is* cause for concern.  And you are also right that when I was referring to industry
involvement in research I was not specifically referring the ghost-writing issue you raise, which explains why the
percentages we each quoted were different.  Thank you for bringing this up.  This is another good reason that we
need to apply especially strict standards to *every* study we read.

Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC
Chicago suburbs, Illinois USA


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