Author: Eddie Vos
Position: M. Eng, independent researcher
Institution: Sutton (Qc) Canada J0E 2K0
E-mail: vos@health-heart.org
Submitted Date: October 01, 2007
Published Date: October 2, 2007
This comment was originally posted as a “Reader Response” on the publication date indicated above. All Reader Responses are now available as comments.

This is an eye opening article .. but that's the world we live in.

Money rules and that is not about to change. I blame individual doctors every time they place a signature on a prescription for a drug they don't fully understand; it may be an impossible task but that does not change that signature.

Medical education should immunize graduates to deceitful journal articles. For example, when articles about Lipitor [atorvastatin] don't say it reduces deaths [it does not], the smart MD should automatically put that into context for his patients when reading the omnipresent suggestion of 'event' benefit from such cholesterol-lowering drug.

The ghost writers SHOULD be the editors of journals, mostly excellent since most authors, like my self, could use some ghost assistance.

And then there is theheart.org, WebMD, Medscape, all respectable sounding but apparently all owned by the same for profit ~$b2.5 conglomerate and that 'partners' with the media conglomerates.