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    Medical school to examine whether professor published paper partly written by chemical company
    ▻http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/medical-school-examine-whether-professor-published-paper-partly-written-

    Officials at a medical school in New York State say they will investigate a faculty member who, according to internal documents released last week by a federal court in California, put his name on a paper partially ghostwritten by employees at #Monsanto, the giant agricultural chemicals company based in St. Louis, Missouri.

    Officials at the New York Medical College (NYMC) in Valhalla, New York, had not heard of the ghostwriting allegation until they were contacted by ScienceInsider, says Jennifer Riekert, the college’s vice president of communications. “Now that we’re aware of this, we’re going to have to obtain the materials involved and learn all we can about this situation,” she says.

    At issue is a 2000 paper published in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. It concluded that a review of studies of one of Monstano’s most successful products, the widely-used herbicide #Roundup, showed no evidence of harmful effects on people.

    #corruption #fraude

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      In one email, William Heydens, a Monsanto executive, weighed in on that option, suggesting Monsanto could cut costs by recruiting experts in some areas, but then “ghost write” parts of the paper. “An option would be to add Greim and Kier or Kirkland to have their names on the publication, but we would be keeping the cost down by us doing the writing and they would just sign their names so to speak. Recall this is how we handled Williams Kroes & Munro 2000,” Heydens wrote in an email.

      Cited 549 times (google scholar) and 220 times (Web of Science). More than other #glyphosate animal toxicity reviews

      ▻https://twitter.com/Robin_Mesnage/status/844560916238815233

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      Mise à jour de l’article de ScienceMag :

      After a quick investigation, officials at a medical school in New York State say they have found “no evidence” that a faculty member violated the school’s prohibition against authoring a paper ghostwritten by others.

      Mais :

      Inside the Academic Journal That Corporations Love
      ▻https://psmag.com/inside-the-academic-journal-that-corporations-love-a1dbe48cca1c

      “Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology is a vanity journal that publishes mercenary science created by polluters and producers of toxic chemicals to manufacture uncertainty about the #science underlying public-health and environmental protections.” says David Michaels, professor of environmental and occupational health at the George Washington University School of Public Health.

      [...] After reviewing the Roundup study published in 2000, Sass says it doesn’t appear to be “what we normally call ghostwriting.” The study’s acknowledgement section, which is hidden behind the journal’s paywall, clearly notes Monsanto’s heavy involvement in the study’s science.

      #publications

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