Friday, January 9, 2009

Integrity Alert!

If the health care system is going to be reformed, than the quality of our research must be improved. And transparency is essential. Dan Carlat has long been on this issue:

It looks like Dr. Charles Nemeroff has found a way to wriggle out of the already loose leash clapped around his neck by Emory University.

For those who have forgotten about Dr. Nemeroff’s recent trials and tribulations, here’s a brief recap. He was the principal investigator of a $3.95 million NIH grant to study several drugs by GlaxoSmithKline. But he was at the same time making hundreds of thousands of dollars doing promotional talks for the same company...

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