May 16, 2008

'Dishonesty' Among Authors

To the Editor:

Regarding Lila Guterman's "Scientists May Be Putting Their Own Names on Papers Written by Companies" (The Chronicle, online edition, April 16), Catherine D. DeAngelis and Phil B. Fontanarosa of The Journal of the American Medical Association correctly emphasize that an underlying principle in publishing should be honesty. Dishonesty about authorship can take two forms: Those who really wrote the article are not credited (ghostwriting); or those who supposedly wrote the

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