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a sunny day…

And so I’m at a coffee house in Black Mountain, NC on a beautiful sunny day and I pull out my iPhone for a bit of free WiFi, after a morning visiting with relatives, and I’m stunned. Yesterday’s article on Paxil Study 329 was pretty great [Controversial Paxil paper still under fire 13 years later], […]

parsing “some”…

Controversial Paxil paper still under fire 13 years later Some say former U. professor Martin Keller’s paper was ghostwritten and should be retracted The Brown Daily Herald By Isobel Heck April 2, 2014 Former University Professor Martin Keller published a 2001 paper on the drug Paxil that has allegedly been ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline. Two weeks […]

at first glance…

Medical school leaders cash in on drug company boards Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By John Fauber April 1, 2014 While university doctors who moonlight for drug companies have faced intense scrutiny in recent years, new research suggests much larger sums of money are being paid to their bosses — the leaders of medical schools and hospitals […]