Researchers and Pharma
March 19th, 2009
From the Effect Measure blog, and interesting commentary about researchers and involvement with Pharma funding.
The scientist as high class hooker and gigolo
The Conflict of Interest talk these days is all about doctors and medical school lecturers who are in bed with Big Pharma, but the bed is pretty crowded. Researchers are there, too. Not that this hasn’t been a topic of conversation. And not that researchers aren’t conscious of it and frantically trying to distance themselves from it. But it’s nice and warm under the covers and its a friendship with benefits, as the younger generation likes to put it…