Big Pharma’s Wikipedia editors

August 31, 2007

Abbott Labs has an in-house employee editing various Wikipedia entries pertaining to their drugs:

As other observers have noted since the Wikipedia tool was released, other companies have edited their Wikipedia entries “” sometimes making small changes, sometimes making their entries sound more promotional “” but the Abbott case was particularly striking because it involved the deletion of a reference to safety study published in a major medical journal (albeit a reference that may have been added to Abbott’s entry by an industry critic, and without a link to the study itself).