BLOGSCAN - Another Case of (Attempted) Ghost-Writing

A little late for Halloween is this post on the WSJ Health Blog describing a vivid anecdote of an unsuccesful attempt by a medical education and communication company (MECC) to generate a ghost-written abstract for a medical scientific meeting. (Our most recent post on ghost-writing and related pheonomena was here, summarizing an article by Moffatt and Elliott that characterized ghost-writing as harmful to people and undermining science.)