Ghostwriters Used in Vioxx Studies, Article Says

time to prosecute and jail these guys

Reports Allege Merck Misrepresented Vioxx Research

By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 15, 2008; 5:17 PM

Two teams of researchers with access to thousands of documents gathered in lawsuits over the painkiller Vioxx allege that Merck & Co. waged a campaign of deception to promote its drug, moving slowly to warn of possible hazards while dressing up in-house research as the work of independent academic researchers.

The reports in tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical Association in effect charge one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies with various forms of scientific fraud.


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