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12.02.09

Merck and Elsevier Create "Peer-Reviewed" Advertorial

Time to cancel that subscription to the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine
By Stuart Fox Posted 05.04.2009 at 4:54 pm 0 Comments

It seems as though pharmaceutical giant Merck (best known for the deadly painkiller Vioxx), has teamed up with science publishing titan Elsevier (who, not long ago, got caught producing a rather questionable math journal) to put out a fake peer-reviewed medical journal.

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