Professor Adam G. Dunn

Professor of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Sydney

A Ghostwriter’s insight into the industry

From PLoS Medicine, a nice article on ghost-writing by a former writer, with interesting information about why she did it, and why she stopped doing it. It is also very interesting to get an insight into exactly how the pharmaceutical industry is able to manipulate the publication of articles and the direct education of clinicians. A related article is here.

  • On the value of deplatforming, and seeing online misinformation as an opportunity to counter misinformed beliefs in front of a key audience
  • Do Twitter bots spread vaccine misinformation?
  • trial2rev: seeing the forest for the trees in the systematic review ecosystem
  • How articles from financially conflicted authors are amplified, why it matters, and how to fix it.
  • Thinking outside the cylinder: on the use of clinical trial registries in evidence synthesis communities
  • Differences in exposure to negative news media are associated with lower levels of HPV vaccine coverage