Leemon McHenry, Ph.D., guides us to the fraudulent core of ghostwritten studies, captured legislators, revolving-door regulatory agencies, pay-to-play medical journals, and the "key opinion leaders" who lend their academic credentials to giant corporations... For a price.

With every stage in the process seemingly structured for corruption, we can only wonder, along with Professor McHenry: "Who's looking out for scientific integrity?"

By the time you finish this episode of Perspectives, you might just roll down your sleeve for a rethink.

Leemon McHenry, PhD, is a bioethicist and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, in the United States. He has taught philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Old Dominion University, Davidson College, Central Michigan University, Wittenberg University and Loyola Marymount University, and has held visiting research positions at Johns Hopkins University, UCLA and at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in the University of Edinburgh. His research interests center on medical ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of science.

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