{"id":69896,"date":"2017-01-10T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=69896"},"modified":"2017-01-10T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T04:23:40","slug":"the-bully-pulpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/10\/the-bully-pulpit\/","title":{"rendered":"the bully pulpit…"},"content":{"rendered":"
A<\/font> Bully Pulpit<\/a> is a conspicuous position that provides an opportunity to speak out and be listened to. This term was coined by President Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to the White House as a "bully pulpit", by which he meant a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda.<\/font><\/em><\/sup><\/div>\n

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Flashback<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
In 1980, New England Journal of Medicine<\/font><\/strong> editor Arnold Relman <\/font>saw something ominous coming up ahead, and wrote an editorial [The new medical-industrial complex<\/a>] warning that there was a threat to the integrity of academic medicine from a growing medical industry. And by 1984, the NEJM<\/font><\/strong> instituted a policy against publishing any editorials or review articles by authors with industry Conflicts of Interest. But by 1999 things had changed dramatically, a story I summarized in a narrative…<\/a>. At the time, the new editor, Jeffrey Drazen<\/font>, was embroiled in a controversy over his own ties to industry [see New England Journal of Medicine Names Third Editor in a Year<\/a>, FDA censures NEJM editor<\/a>, Medical Journal Editor Vows to Cut Drug Firm Ties<\/a>].<\/div>\n

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Flash Forward<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
In the summer of 2015, Drazen published an editorial suggesting that the NEJM<\/font><\/strong> rescind Relman’s policy and allow experts with COI to write reviews and editorials, introducing a three part series by one of his staff reporters explaining why this was really a good idea: <\/div>\n
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