last month, the online journal the Australian reported allegations that pharmaceutical giant Merck had paid scientific megapublisher Elsevier to publish a fake medical journal the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine , which swelled Merck products. Now The Scientist , which seems to have broken the story, online reports that between 00 and 05, Elsevier actually put on six false journals sponsored by anonymous pharmaceutical companies. The publications were like medical journals, peer-reviewed, but, again, ran "papers" pro-business products. Subscribers to The Scientist can read the latest twist in the sordid history, but the rest of us can read the mea culpa Elsevier, which is investigating the matter.
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