I Co-Authored a Ghost-Written Article With Dwight Evans, Charles Nemeroff, David Spiegel, and Many Others
The tortured logic of why I joined in ostensibly corrupt academic practices for strategic reasons: reducing the harm of bad science.
This Substack article is part of an open-ended series that will touch on the complexities of ghost and gift-authored articles, authorships obtained by intimate relations with other authors, cyber harassment, and the use of other forms of corrupt academic practices to secure power and academic advancement.
Some disclosures in this article signal a “tell-all” quality of forthcoming articles in my series,
In this installment, I discuss my current ninth most cited of my over 400 entries in Google Scholar (1407 citations as of January 22, 2024). The article has 44 authors.
The article can be accessed by clicking on the citation below
Evans DL, Charney DS, Lewis L, Golden RN, Gorman JM, Krishnan KR, Nemeroff CB, Bremner JD, Carney RM, Coyne JC, Delong MR. Mood disorders in the medically ill: scientific review and recommendations. Biological Psychiatry. 2005 Aug 1;58(3):175-89.
Here is the impressive full list of authors.
The authors are a motley crew that includes NIH program officers, an FDA of…