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Policy Forum Legal Remedies for Medical Ghostwriting: Imposing Fraud Liability on Guest Authors of Ghostwritten Articles 1 2 Simon Stern *, Trudo Lemmens 1 Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2 Faculties of Law and Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Introduction recommendations have not yet been help to make a scientific theory or method widely embraced by the academic institu- admissible as evidence, according to the There are persistent concerns about the tions, medical journals, and medical li- standards set out by the United States influence of the pharmaceutical and de- censing organizations that would seem to Supreme Court in Daubert v. Merrell Dow vice industries on the medical literature, have the most at stake in curbing this Pharmaceuticals [17]. By facilitating publica- and particularly on the reporting of practice. Here, we discuss some of the tion in peer-reviewed journals, guest au- clinical trials, which can include the reasons for this lack of response and thorship creates the impression that stan- distortion of the true evidence base of suggest that the law may offer a solution, dards of academic independence and medical interventions and overestimation given these other institutions’ failure to integrity have been satisfied even when of the clinical benefit of a drug used to impose