EXCERPT: The Los Angeles Times on Sunday (December 7) reported that several high-level NIH scientists and officials had received more than $2.5 million in fees and stock options from drug companies for consulting outside of their government work over the past 10 years.
NIH to launch ethics review
Zerhouni promises comprehensive look at lucrative consulting payments to top officials | By Ted Agres
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), stung by recent allegations of financial wrongdoing on the part of some present and former senior officials, plans to announce today (December 10) a major review of how the agency handles conflict-of-interest matters when top agency employees receive lucrative consulting contracts from private companies.
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Yay! More evidence of conventional medicine policing its own and trying to weed out the bad actors. Have you heard anything about Alt-Med looking into ethical lapses among its own adherents? Didn't think so...
EXCERPT: The Los Angeles Times on Sunday (December 7) reported that several high-level NIH scientists and officials had received more than $2.5 million in fees and stock options from drug companies for consulting outside of their government work over the past 10 years.
NIH to launch ethics review
Zerhouni promises comprehensive look at lucrative consulting payments to top officials | By Ted Agres
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), stung by recent allegations of financial wrongdoing on the part of some present and former senior officials, plans to announce today (December 10) a major review of how the agency handles conflict-of-interest matters when top agency employees receive lucrative consulting contracts from private companies.
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Yay! More evidence of conventional medicine policing its own and trying to weed out the bad actors.
Yeah!!!! The evidence of policing is void when a doc kills a patient, commits fraud deliberately repeats violations.
And remains on staff.
Uh huh.
This isn't policing, it's caled *getting caught*
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Have you heard anything about Alt-Med looking into ethical lapses among its own adherents? Didn't think so...
When and if it happens, you will hear about it as wrong is wrong, and unlike the debunkers here, who don't give a damn who lies, some of us are honest and not selective.
