The Vanishing Author

nbruce writes “Today’s Wall Street Journal had an article about a disappearing author (sorry, no link). Apparently, an employee of Merck Carolyn Cannuscio was the epidemiologist co-author of a Circulation (American Heart Association) article that was funded by Merck. The usual admissions were made about support for the research, but Merck had her name removed from the author list because the article was not kind to Merck. Apparently her name was in the on-line version in April, then removed for the final print version, but she is referred to and thanked anonymously in a footnote as the person who provided the epidemiological work for the article. One of the editors of JAMA thought Merck missed an opportunity to take the high road and set a good example for other corporate funded research.”

May 19, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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