Brian Mandell, arheumatologist who is editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, says he worries that sometimes articles are completely ghostwritten.
To help them, they've brought in another career physician and scientist, Andy Chan, who still practices as arheumatologist at University of California in San Francisco.
The curcumin arthritis studies have a major flaw: Neither included a placebo, or control group, says rheumatologist David Felson, who directs an arthritis research team at Boston University School of Medicine.