Penn Whistle-Blower Says University Side-Stepped Ghostwriting Complaint

By Paul Basken

The University of Pennsylvania was so eager to clear its psychiatry-department chairman and a colleague of ghostwriting charges that it disregarded an offer to review documents proving their hidden corporate author, a faculty whistle-blower has charged.

The company that employed the outside author, Scientific Therapeutics Information, agreed to give Penn documents showing that Dwight L. Evans, its chairman of psychiatry, and Laszlo Gyulai, an associate professor of psychiatry, were