{"id":24330,"date":"2012-06-12T00:33:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T04:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=24330"},"modified":"2012-06-12T00:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T04:49:32","slug":"no-later-than-june-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/no-later-than-june-12\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>no later than June 12<\/em>&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><u><a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/22\/speechless-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">speechless&#8230;<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li><u><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/30\/ethical-guy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#200020\">an ethical guy&hellip;<\/font><\/a><\/strong><\/u><\/li>\n<li><u><a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/01\/only-one-question\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">only one question&hellip;<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">In the matter of Dr. Nemeroff&#8217;s NIMH Grant for $2 M, today is a day to begin wondering what Dr. Collins of the NIH [or Dr. Insel of the NIMH] will have to say to Senator Grassley &quot;<em>no later than June 12, 2012<\/em>&quot;&#8230;         <\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/about\/upload\/2012-05-29-CEG-to-NIH-Dr-Nemeroff-grant.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"1090\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/collins-1.gif\" \/><\/a><br \/>       <sup>[reformatted to fit][click for the original]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In the past, Senator Grassley has been forthcoming with the responses he receives from such inquiries. Let&#8217;s hope he continues that policy. Anyone who follows these things is a stakeholder in this inquiry. For review, back in 2009 when Dr. Nemeroff was jockeying for a job in Miami, we have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/15\/who-is-not-telling-the-truth-yes\/\"><u><strong>this<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:            <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"> <strong><u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/While-Revising-Ethics-Rules\/65800\/\"><font color=\"#200020\">As  He Worked to Strengthen Ethics Rules, NIMH Director Aided a  Leading  Transgressor<\/font><\/a><\/u><br \/>                      The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/strong><br \/>                       By Paul Basken<br \/>                     June 8, 2010 <\/div>\n<p>   <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup>&hellip; It was the latest benefit for both sides to a  relationship that Dr.  Nemeroff had cultivated for at least 16 years,  said Dr. Carroll, now  scientific director of the Pacific Behavioral  Research Foundation, a  nonprofit mental-health research foundation in  California.<\/p>\n<p>     Dr. Nemeroff began offering help to the now-director  of the NIMH in  1994, when Dr. Insel was facing the nonrenewal of his  research job at  the NIH, Dr. Carroll said, bringing him to Emory to  serve as a professor  of psychiatry and director of the Yerkes Regional  Primate Research  Center. Dr. Nemeroff also led a lobbying effort that  helped ensure Dr.  Insel&rsquo;s appointment in 2002 as NIMH director, Dr.  Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p>   Dr. Carroll, who supervised Dr. Nemeroff for six  years at Duke,  describes the career assistance for Dr. Insel as part of  a strategy in  which Dr. Nemeroff would &quot;put people in debt to him, and  then call in  the chips later&quot;&hellip;<\/sup><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"631\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/nemeroff1.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<ul><sup><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>[1]<\/strong>  Dr. Insel writes to Dr. Nemeroff that someone [else] at Emory was chosen  Principle Investigator of a grant, I surmise it is one formerly under  Dr. Nemeroff.         <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>[2]<\/strong>  The Dean at Miami, Dr. Goldschmidt, contacts Dr. Insel asking for a   recommendation for Dr. Nemeroff who is applying for the Chair in   Psychiatry.         <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>[3]<\/strong> Dr. Insel declines a request for recommendation from Dr. Goldschmidt,  but says he will talk informally over the phone.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>[4]<\/strong> Dr. Goldschmidt agrees to call.         <\/div>\n<p><\/sup><\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup>The e-mail correspondence, obtained by  The Chronicle from the NIH in response to a request under the Freedom of  Information Act, showed that Dr. Goldschmidt wrote to Dr. Insel in July  2009 asking for &quot;a confidential opinion&quot; regarding Dr. Nemeroff.<\/p>\n<p>     Dr. Goldschmidt said in an interview that he already  had enough recommendations by that time to make him feel comfortable  about hiring Dr. Nemeroff, and only wanted to hear Dr. Insel&rsquo;s direct  assurance of his NIH eligibility. &quot;Recruiting  Charlie, I was quite concerned with his standing, with the NIH  specifically, because I was not going to recruit somebody who could not  apply for NIH grants,&quot; Dr. Goldschmidt said.<\/p>\n<p>      But Dr. Insel, writing back five minutes later, saw  an even wider opportunity to help, offering to provide Dr. Goldschmidt  with his own words of recommendation. &quot;I cannot provide a written,  formal recommendation by NIH rules,&quot; Dr. Insel told Dr. Goldschmidt.  &quot;However, I can discuss informally by phone&quot;.    Calendar records show they spoke by phone 10 days later, on July 27.   Dr. Nemeroff wrote to Dr. Insel later that day, making plans to meet the   following morning for breakfast before they attended a conference in   Philadelphia and thanking him for the help with Dr. Goldschmidt, saying,   &quot;I appreciate your efforts.&quot;<\/sup><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul><sup><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>[5]<\/strong>  In an email to Dr. Helen Mayberg, Dr. Insel assures her that Charlie  Nemeroff is going to get an offer from the University of Miami soon,  making her life at Emory easier.       <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>[6]<\/strong> She says she&rsquo;s pulling for Charlie.       <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>[7]<\/strong> Charlie tells Dr. Insel he got the job and is already talking to Linda Brady [at NIMH] about grants.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>[8]<\/strong> Dr. Insel congratulates Charlie, telling him it&rsquo;s a &quot;new beginning&quot;&hellip;<\/div>\n<p><\/sup><\/ul>\n<div>Enough already. Did they think we&#8217;d forget?&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>speechless&#8230; an ethical guy&hellip; only one question&hellip; In the matter of Dr. Nemeroff&#8217;s NIMH Grant for $2 M, today is a day to begin wondering what Dr. Collins of the NIH [or Dr. Insel of the NIMH] will have to say to Senator Grassley &quot;no later than June 12, 2012&quot;&#8230; [reformatted to fit][click for the [&hellip;]<\/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-24330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330","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=24330"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24340,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330\/revisions\/24340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}