Friday, August 31, 2007

Big Pharma's Wikipedia editors

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).


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