https://scienceblogs.com/ en https://scienceblogs.com/seed/2009/05/05/the-buzz-elsevier-publishes-fa <span>The Buzz: Elsevier Publishes Fake Journal</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.himaa.org.au/2007/Images/Elsevier_black_300dpi.jpg"><img src="http://www.himaa.org.au/2007/Images/Elsevier_black_300dpi.jpg" width="500" /></a></p> <p><i>The Scientist</i> revealed Thursday that pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp &amp; Dohme paid Elsevier—the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature—to produce a publication that gave the appearance of being a medical journal, but was actually a marketing promotion for Merck. The 2003 publication, The <i>The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine</i>, was written by the staff of Merck to favor Merck pharmaceuticals and lacked the unbiased peer review that is crucial to the credibility of medical journals, presenting evidence for the efficacy of a Merck drug when nonpharmacological therapy may have worked just as well. "Clearly putting together something that looked like a medical journal and that contained articles (and excerpts from articles) that had only good things to say about Merck products reflects an intent to deceive," said ScienceBlogger Janet from <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/2009/05/fake_medical_journals.php">Adventures in Ethics and Science</a>.</p> <!--more--><h3 style="margin: 0 56px 12px; font: bold 11px 'Trebuchet MS'; text-transform: uppercase;">Related ScienceBlogs Posts:</h3> <ul class="arrowLinks" style="margin: 0 56px 24px; font-size: 12px;"> <li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/05/when_big_pharma_pays_a_publisher_to_publ.php">When big pharma pays a publisher to publish a fake journal...</a></li> <li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/2009/05/fake_medical_journals.php">Fake medical journals</a></li> <li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/isisthescientist/2009/05/damn_it_elservier.php">Damn it, Elsevier!</a></li> <li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2009/05/merck_and_elsevier_make_a_phon.php">Merck and Elsevier Make A Phony Journal</a></li> </ul> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="/author/amillikan" lang="" about="/author/amillikan" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">amillikan</a></span> <span>Tue, 05/05/2009 - 11:16</span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/medicine" hreflang="en">medicine</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/elsevier" hreflang="en">elsevier</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/fake-journal" hreflang="en">fake journal</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/merck" hreflang="en">merck</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/phony" hreflang="en">phony</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/phony-journal" hreflang="en">phony journal</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"><a href="/user/login?destination=/seed/2009/05/05/the-buzz-elsevier-publishes-fa%23comment-form">Log in</a> to post comments</li></ul> Tue, 05 May 2009 15:16:18 +0000 amillikan 68777 at https://scienceblogs.com