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“The beauty of this process is that we become your postdocs,” reads one 2001 e-mail from a DesignWrite employee to an academic author. “We provide you with an outline that you review and suggest changes to. We then develop a draft from the final outline.”

UD‘s medical school colleagues labor over their scientific papers.

With a little help from their friends.

It’s win-win for the professors. Don’t lift a finger. Get hundreds of publication credits.

Oh. Except for:

“How many other drugs have been promoted in the same way, but you never find out about them because nobody’s suffered heart attacks?” [Leemon McHenry, a medical ethicist at California State University in Northridge] says. “Nobody finds out about this at all until there’s been some major damage and the lawsuits get filed.”

But he’s talking about the little people.

And really, if it weren’t for their doctors prescribing dangerous drugs to the little people based on ghostwritten papers, how would we find out the drugs are dangerous? That’s how science works.

Margaret Soltan, September 8, 2010 4:20AM
Posted in: march of science

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One Response to ““The beauty of this process is that we become your postdocs,” reads one 2001 e-mail from a DesignWrite employee to an academic author. “We provide you with an outline that you review and suggest changes to. We then develop a draft from the final outline.””

  1. University Diaries » Cute little Europe and its old world ways. Says:

    […] it? You buy all of your undergraduate papers; someone writes your doctoral thesis; firms like DesignWrite do all your publications; you outsource your grading to India… What am I forgetting? Is there […]

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