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Why Are Pfizer's Ghostwritten Hormone Therapy Articles Not Retracted?

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"We are working on a review paper on diabetes and HRT," writes Mittleman to William Cefalu, MD in one memo. Would you "be interested in working with us as the author of this paper?"

Nor was it hidden from journal editors who eagerly correspond with DesignWrite as it "repped" doctor authors, archived documents show.

Hormone therapy represents one of the largest swaths of preventable injuries to healthy citizens in recent history with thousands of women developing cancer and other deadly side effects. Yet Wyeth/Pizer maintains it doesn't know how the idea that hormone therapy could prevent heart disease and dementia and provide other "benefits" ever got started.

One look at Dida archives shows how the "idea" got started. And the scores of unretracted papers in the medical literature show how the ideas persist.

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