Merck Mendacity

Pharmaceutical giant Merck publishes that doctor's office essential the Merck Manual. It's the oldest continuously published general medical text in the English language. Recently Merck's drugs products were favorably peer-reviewed in The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine. There's only one problem. The journal doesn't exist. Merck invented it to help tout its pharmaceuticals to doctors. Link goes to the story and a discussion of fundamental ethics.