[olsen]

http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bio...#ixzz14ilNhozT

Walk it Off, Crybaby
Pharmaceutics
Carl Elliott, 10/13/2010

(There was) ...an indignant letter posted recently in PLoS Medicine by an attorney for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
Wyeth is upset about an article by Adriane Fugh-Berman titled “The Haunting of Medical Journals: How Ghostwriting Sold ‘HRT’.” Drawing on internal documents made available to her when she testified as an expert witness against Wyeth, Fugh-Berman describes how the company used ghostwritten journal articles to promote Prempro... what is the crime Wyeth is so worked up about? That Fugh-Berman ...– did not specifically state that she is still working as an expert witness. Yes, that’s the crime. Not the breast cancer, not the heart disease, not the strokes or emboli linked to Prempro. The crime is using the incorrect verb tense.


"...Most physicians are terrified of the pharmaceutical industry, and most medical journals are financially dependent on it. As a result, the extent of industry wrongdoing was largely hidden from the public for years. That began to change when expert witnesses who had testified against the pharmaceutical industry began to make their findings public...

...real purpose of the letter: to intimidate anyone who might be thinking of testifying against them..."

Read more: http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bio...#ixzz14jPMJrhj


link to neuroethics and law blog: (as though any of us has the extra time to read peripheral materials, though this blog does address articles/information about PD from time to time)
http://kolber.typepad.com/

[RLSmi]

Originally Posted by olsen

http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bio...#ixzz14ilNhozT

Walk it Off, Crybaby
Pharmaceutics
Carl Elliott, 10/13/2010

(There was) ...an indignant letter posted recently in PLoS Medicine by an attorney for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
Wyeth is upset about an article by Adriane Fugh-Berman titled “The Haunting of Medical Journals: How Ghostwriting Sold ‘HRT’.” Drawing on internal documents made available to her when she testified as an expert witness against Wyeth, Fugh-Berman describes how the company used ghostwritten journal articles to promote Prempro... what is the crime Wyeth is so worked up about? That Fugh-Berman ...– did not specifically state that she is still working as an expert witness. Yes, that’s the crime. Not the breast cancer, not the heart disease, not the strokes or emboli linked to Prempro. The crime is using the incorrect verb tense.


"...Most physicians are terrified of the pharmaceutical industry, and most medical journals are financially dependent on it. As a result, the extent of industry wrongdoing was largely hidden from the public for years. That began to change when expert witnesses who had testified against the pharmaceutical industry began to make their findings public...

...real purpose of the letter: to intimidate anyone who might be thinking of testifying against them..."

Read more: http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bio...#ixzz14jPMJrhj


link to neuroethics and law blog: (as though any of us has the extra time to read peripheral materials, though this blog does address articles/information about PD from time to time)
http://kolber.typepad.com/

Wow, Madelyn! I made the mistake of clicking on the last blog link about an hour and a half ago. That kind of stuff (morality and legality of drugs for cognition enhancement) tends to entrap me. When I get started, I lose all sense of the passage of time.
The only benefit I derive is a better understanding of my dw's tendency to computer game addiction. She would call that a good thing.

Robert