It
seems as though pharmaceutical giant Merck (best known for the deadly
painkiller Vioxx), has teamed up with science publishing titan Elsevier (who,
not long ago, got caught producing a rather questionable math journal) to put
out a fake peer-reviewed medical journal.
The
journal in question, named Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine,
does not have a web site or a listing on the medical journal database Medline.
According to The Scientist, Merck paid Elsevier to create the journal so Merck
could publish favorable data, and then quote that data as appearing in a
peer-reviewed journal when trying to persuade doctors to use Merck products.
The
fake was first reported by The Scientist, and later disseminated by the blog of
the American Journal of Bioethics, Booing Booing and Slashdot.
This
is essentially the Big Parma equivalent of Dick Cheney leaking a story about
WMDs to Judith Miller so he can later quote his own leak to support his
assertions.
Keyword :journal of
physical chemistry, journal of biological chemistry, journal of organic chemistry, journal of medicine and
surgery, journal of obstetrics and
gynecology, international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology.Website: : http://www.arjonline.org/medicine-and-health-care/american-research-journal-of-medicine-and-surgery/
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