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…and then sometimes those pesky iPhones just take pictures all by themselves
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Think I’ll ever say Good·Bye To All That<\/strong> to the Texas courtroom? One thing that might help would be a change in the weather [Tornado Warnings from Louisiana to South Carolina]:<\/p>\n

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I know there are reasons for me to remain stuck on this trial. The kind of Pharmaceutical Industry misbehavior this story represents changed the field of psychiatry and resulted in a new kind of "drug culture" that rivaled and probably exceeded that of the 1960s. It was a frontal assault on the ethics of psychiatry [and medicine in general]. It indirectly had an adverse effect on my own life [along with that of countless others]. It abused the methods and reputation of medical science and made a mockery of large segments of our literature. It corrupted all avenues of disseminating medical information – the literature, academic medicine, Continuing Medical Education, the Pharmaceutical "Detail Men." So I’d like to stay fixated on this trial for a very long time, until its lesson is emblazoned in the minds of everyone that matters as a way of preventing its recurrence. I want it to be remembered. I guess that’s a naive and grandiose wish. Ed Silverman has a more measured view of the impact of this trial, "As a result, the stinging testimony lives on indefinitely for anyone to learn how J&J brazenly pursued market share, infamous corporate credo, notwithstanding<\/font><\/strong>."<\/p>\n

There were other things in Texas besides the Janssen trial. Over the weekend, we drove down to San Antonio to see the sites. We’d never been there. Before we left Georgia, everyone warned us, "The Alamo is really little." Well it didn’t seem that little to me. It was just "Alamo-sized." I found it moving, and we lingered much longer than planned wandering the grounds, the exhibits, watching the films. Actually, the size added to the story – that something that small could occupy such a large place in our country’s history was a big part of the story for me.<\/p>\n

I guess the analogy is obvious…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…and then sometimes those pesky iPhones just take pictures all by themselves Think I’ll ever say Good·Bye To All That to the Texas courtroom? One thing that might help would be a change in the weather [Tornado Warnings from Louisiana to South Carolina]: I know there are reasons for me to remain stuck on this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18441"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18456,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18441\/revisions\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}