Comments on: Undue influence? Emory researcher hid pharma payments http://www.citizenvox.org/2008/10/07/undue-influence-emory-researcher-hid-pharma-payments/ Standing Up to Corporate Power Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:29:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Geneve from ATL http://www.citizenvox.org/2008/10/07/undue-influence-emory-researcher-hid-pharma-payments/#comment-1564 Geneve from ATL Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:44:00 +0000 http://citizenvox.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-1564 I wonder if Grassley and NIH should not start investigating other misuses of public grants, such as investigators starting their own unsuccessful companies around valuable patents developed with federal funds, and paying nothing to the public coffers… universities sweet-dealing with their own employees. some technologies could even be life-saving ones... all lost in ego-boosting, failure-destined, enterprises I wonder if Grassley and NIH should not start investigating other misuses of public grants, such as investigators starting their own unsuccessful companies around valuable patents developed with federal funds, and paying nothing to the public coffers… universities sweet-dealing with their own employees. some technologies could even be life-saving ones… all lost in ego-boosting, failure-destined, enterprises

]]> By: Nemeroff is a symptom of a bigger problem « citizenvox.org http://www.citizenvox.org/2008/10/07/undue-influence-emory-researcher-hid-pharma-payments/#comment-1563 Nemeroff is a symptom of a bigger problem « citizenvox.org Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:40:11 +0000 http://citizenvox.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-1563 [...] a PC research associate, opined in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about noted Emory psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff, he of the $2.8 million in Pharma consulting contracts. It might be tempting to write off Nemeroff [...] [...] a PC research associate, opined in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about noted Emory psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff, he of the $2.8 million in Pharma consulting contracts. It might be tempting to write off Nemeroff [...]

]]> By: Joe Newman http://www.citizenvox.org/2008/10/07/undue-influence-emory-researcher-hid-pharma-payments/#comment-1562 Joe Newman Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:58:49 +0000 http://citizenvox.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-1562 Thanks for your comment, Dr. Bremner. Sorry it took so long to get up, it got caught in our spam filter. Thanks for your comment, Dr. Bremner. Sorry it took so long to get up, it got caught in our spam filter.

]]> By: Doug Bremner MD http://www.citizenvox.org/2008/10/07/undue-influence-emory-researcher-hid-pharma-payments/#comment-1561 Doug Bremner MD Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:46:46 +0000 http://citizenvox.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-1561 Mind you, I am not here to justify Dr. Nemeroff's bad behavior. To not disclose the payment of more than $10,000 a year from a drug company that makes a drug you are also studying with an NIH funded grant is clearly a violation of NIH policy (although not a violation of the law). However, when I was attacked by a drug company, Nemeroff was the ONLY person at Emory to come to my defense http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/blog.thml I think you need to take personal character into account before you rush to judgment. He had NO personal incentive to defend me. He did it out of principle. And in fact he and EVERYONE at Emory was nervous by my behavior. In fact Emory refused to issue a press release about my book. I have some questions for the Senator. First off, why are you only investigating psychiatrists? [Answer: psychiatrists have an approval rating in medicine that is only above chiropractors. Many people blame paxil for their problems. It is low hanging fruit] Second, why don't you look at other specialties? Take a look at cafepharma.com, where the drug reps are gossiping in relation to the Nemeroff dispute that "key opinion leaders" for advair are at the front of the gravy train. [Answer: cardiologists make life saving drugs, while psychiatrists are pseudoscientists who are trying to invent a myth about serotonin imbalance so they can help sell drugs for their cronies, the drug companies.] [Answer to answer: Not true. You have to treat 100 heart disease patients with Lipitor to prevent one heart attack, while you treat only 8-17 depressed patients with an antidepressant to prevent a recurrence. And if you don't believe that depression is as bad as a heart attack, ask someone who has been there.] Ask anyone who works in a university hospital. If their docs have any talent, they are never there. It is because they are always away giving talks for pharma. And pretty much all of it is undisclosed. The ones who are complaining about it are the losers who pharma doesn't want to lecture for them anyway. Senator Grassley, if you really want to get to the bottom of the corruption that has permeated academic medicine, do a nation wide audit. Of ALL specialties. If you don't, you are a hypocrite. http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/blog.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bremner/deposition-x-or-pages-fro_b_100931.html Doug Bremner MD http://www.dougbremner.com Mind you, I am not here to justify Dr. Nemeroff’s bad behavior. To not disclose the payment of more than $10,000 a year from a drug company that makes a drug you are also studying with an NIH funded grant is clearly a violation of NIH policy (although not a violation of the law).

However, when I was attacked by a drug company, Nemeroff was the ONLY person at Emory to come to my defense

http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/blog.thml

I think you need to take personal character into account before you rush to judgment. He had NO personal incentive to defend me. He did it out of principle.
And in fact he and EVERYONE at Emory was nervous by my behavior. In fact Emory refused to issue a press release about my book.
I have some questions for the Senator.

First off, why are you only investigating psychiatrists? [Answer: psychiatrists have an approval rating in medicine that is only above chiropractors. Many people blame paxil for their problems. It is low hanging fruit]

Second, why don’t you look at other specialties? Take a look at cafepharma.com, where the drug reps are gossiping in relation to the Nemeroff dispute that “key opinion leaders” for advair are at the front of the gravy train. [Answer: cardiologists make life saving drugs, while psychiatrists are pseudoscientists who are trying to invent a myth about serotonin imbalance so they can help sell drugs for their cronies, the drug companies.] [Answer to answer: Not true. You have to treat 100 heart disease patients with Lipitor to prevent one heart attack, while you treat only 8-17 depressed patients with an antidepressant to prevent a recurrence. And if you don't believe that depression is as bad as a heart attack, ask someone who has been there.]

Ask anyone who works in a university hospital. If their docs have any talent, they are never there. It is because they are always away giving talks for pharma. And pretty much all of it is undisclosed. The ones who are complaining about it are the losers who pharma doesn’t want to lecture for them anyway.

Senator Grassley, if you really want to get to the bottom of the corruption that has permeated academic medicine, do a nation wide audit. Of ALL specialties. If you don’t, you are a hypocrite.
http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/blog.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bremner/deposition-x-or-pages-fro_b_100931.html

Doug Bremner MD
http://www.dougbremner.com

]]> By: Scott http://www.citizenvox.org/2008/10/07/undue-influence-emory-researcher-hid-pharma-payments/#comment-1560 Scott Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:31:41 +0000 http://citizenvox.wordpress.com/?p=709#comment-1560 Please keep me updated on your daily emails about Pharma corruption and related subjects - I am interested in natural alternatives and like to know what is happening in the industry so that I can help to evolve the discussion toward life-supporting rather than life -damaging activities. Please keep me updated on your daily emails about Pharma corruption and related subjects – I am interested in natural alternatives and like to know what is happening in the industry so that I can help to evolve the discussion toward life-supporting rather than life -damaging activities.

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