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    (September 2009)
    The article describes how many noted physicians lent their name to articles they had not actually written resulting in much more prescribing of hormones to post-menopausal women. As a result, this misinformation caused thousands of cases of breast cancer and heart disease. Some doctors received medical school tenure on the basis of their "literary production" when they had merely agreed to stake their names (and, by extension, the reputations of their institutions) to enhance pharmaceutical company's profits and line their own pockets.
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