May 14, 2011

POGO to NIH: Stop Academic Ghostwriting Pollution - AHRP

Project on Government Oversight (POGO) asked NIH Director to take a firm stance against ghostwriting by academics who receive taxpayer funded grants.
POGO reminds the director of the National Institutes of Health (posted below) that taxpayers provide the NIH with $30 billion annually to fund biomedical research. But  the proliferation of ghostwritten reports by federally funded researchers are undermining the integrity of NIH, the scientific literature, and result in medical practices that cause patients harm.>>>

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