{"id":32377,"date":"2013-01-18T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=32377"},"modified":"2013-01-18T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T00:18:11","slug":"too-prissy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/18\/too-prissy\/","title":{"rendered":"too prissy?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">Several days ago, I posted a link to AllTrials [the red folder upper left] with gret enthusiasm. I&#8217;m still enthusiastic, but as always, there&#8217;s a glitch. <a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/16\/click-it-and-sign-it\/#comment-235572\" target=\"_blank\">Cam<\/a> posted a warning to look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senseaboutscience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sense-About-Science<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php\/Sense_about_Science\" target=\"_blank\">SourceWatch<\/a>. where he found some problematic funding [Association of the British Pharmaceutial Industry, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer]. Then Annonymous went to the Sense-About-Science web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senseaboutscience.org\/pages\/funding.html\" target=\"_blank\">funding page<\/a> and said, &quot;<em>Can see a further breakdown of Sense about Science funding here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.senseaboutscience.org\/pages\/funding.html\">http:\/\/www.senseaboutscience.org\/pages\/funding.html<\/a>]. That breakdown does not dampen my enthusiasm for the message or the messengers&#8230;<\/em>&quot; Those formerly mentioned donors aren&#8217;t there, and the funding looks reassuring &#8211; showing this graph:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.senseaboutscience.org\/data\/images\/Year_end_April_2011_Funding_pie_chart.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.senseaboutscience.org\/data\/images\/Year_end_April_2011_Funding_pie_chart.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">The problem is, I want <strong><font color=\"#200020\">AllTrials<\/font><\/strong> to succeed. The coming of Dr. Ben Goldacre [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bad-Pharma-Companies-Mislead-Patients\/dp\/0865478007\">Bad Pharma<\/a>], the BMJ Editor Fiona Godlee [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/31\/god-save-the-queen\/\">God Save the Queen!&hellip;<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/01\/in-praise-of-fiona\/\">in praise of Fiona Godlee&hellip;<\/a>], and the others has been a welcome infusion of the just right medicine in the arm of meaningful reform of Clinical Trials and their reporting. But do I want them to succeed so much that I&#8217;d be willing to overlook a bit of Pharma funding here and there? I hate to be prissy about this, but I think the answer should be &quot;no.&quot; This whole Pharma invasion of academic psychiatry and specifically Clinical Trials was insidious and it happened in my psychiatric lifetime. It just slid in from the sidelines, and all of a sudden, it was the whole game. So I&#8217;m reassured by Annonymous&#8217;s finding, but I&#8217;ve written the sponsors of <strong><font color=\"#200020\">AllTrials<\/font><\/strong> for their clarification and policy on industry funding. I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s either too picky or too paranoid to ask, not when you consider the climate we&#8217;ve lived in for such a long time&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago, I posted a link to AllTrials [the red folder upper left] with gret enthusiasm. I&#8217;m still enthusiastic, but as always, there&#8217;s a glitch. Cam posted a warning to look at Sense-About-Science on SourceWatch. where he found some problematic funding [Association of the British Pharmaceutial Industry, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer]. Then Annonymous went to 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-32377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32377","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=32377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32382,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32377\/revisions\/32382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}