Pharmaceutical company Merck paid an undisclosed sum to academic publisher Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles — most of which presented data favorable to Merck products — that appeared to act solely as marketing tools with no disclosure of company sponsorship.

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