Author: Oreskes, N
Description: “Consider the problem of ghostwriting in science. Recently, a colleague and I published a paper analyzing the impacts of a peer-reviewed paper, published in 2000, that purported to be an independent, objective, and comprehensive review of the safety of the pesticide, glyphosate. The paper found no convincing evidence for toxicity, genotoxicity, carcinogenicity, or endocrine disruption. However, documents made public through legal proceedings in 2017 showed that the paper was not, in fact, independent, but had been conceptualized and largely written by Monsanto employees. We wanted to know: How much of an impact has this ghostwritten paper, which asserts the safety of glyphosate, had?”
Subject headings: Ghostwriting; Science; Glyphosate; Monsanto; Research; Integrity
Publication year: 2025
Journal or book title: Science
Volume: 390
Issue: 6772
Pages: aec4187
Find the full text: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec4187
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