| Merck Paid Elsevier to Publish Phony Peer-Review Journal |
| Tuesday, 05 May 2009 | |
| Merck is reported to have created a fake "peer-reviewed" journal to present favorable data that made its potentially fatal drugs--Fosamax and Vioxx--look good. Documents uncovered during the Australian class action lawsuit involving 1,000 consumers, against Merck & Co and its Australian subsidiary, Merck Sharpe and Dohme, are shocking even to hardened critics of pharmaceutical industry corrupt practices. Reports are swirling about Merck's underhanded marketing scheme evidently cooked up to mislead doctors into prescribing its potentially fatal drugs--Fosamax (for osteoporosis) and Vioxx (for pain). [1] [2] See link above for full story. |
