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Government to Review Pfizer CIHR Appointment
I recently blogged about the appointment of Dr. Prigent, a VP of Pfizer Canada, to the governing board of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and of the resulting objection raised by leading Canadian bioethicists. I’ll reiterate the problem here, for completeness. Dr. Prigent is a drug industry representative who works for Pfizer Canada. Pfizer [...]
Continue reading...Weekly Wordle: World AIDS Day and CNN Twitter Feeds
1 December 2009
Wordle is fantastic! You go to their site, and create a word cloud, or Wordle, from a piece of text, RSS feed, tag cloud–basically any text you want. The visuals are a lot of fun to play with. The words it uses in the Wordle are the most frequently appearing words. So Wordle gives you [...]
Continue reading...Pfizer’s CIHR Insider: an Update and a Petition
25 November 2009
Yesterday I wrote about the appointment of Dr. Bernard Prigent to the governing board of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Canada’s publicly funded health research branch. I also described some of the controversy surrounding that appointment. Today I received notice that a petition is being circulated calling “for the withdrawal of the appointment of [...]
Continue reading...Pfizer VP Appointed to CIHR Governing Board
24 November 2009
The CMAJ recently reported that a Pfizer VP has been appointed to the governing council of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). Here are a couple of the criticisms raised over the appointment, as taken from the CMAJ article (I would encourage you to read it in its entirety): “The appointment is “very surprising and [...]
Continue reading...Pfizer Accused of Publishing Misleading Research
13 November 2009
The Associated Press is reporting on a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) which finds that Pfizer seriously misrepresented drug trial results related to their epilepsy drug Neurontin. You can find a more complete report of both the NEJM article and the AP piece at Udo Schüklenk’s blog. It’s been a bad stretch for [...]
Continue reading...UNESCO: Philosophy on the World Stage
13 November 2009
I’ve added some links to sections of the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) web site. They have useful collections of information within their Social and Human Sciences section on hot topics, news and events, declarations, and reports organized around various themes, such as: Philosophy Ethics Bioethics Ethics of Science and Technology As with most of the United Nations [...]
Continue reading...BOINC Makes the World a Better Place – Part Two, Installing BOINC
6 November 2009
In this post I explain how to install the BOINC Manager software and attach to your first project.
Continue reading...BOINC Makes the World a Better Place, One Flop at a Time
2 November 2009
As you read this blog post your eyes are capturing the light emitting from your computer screen. Your brain is busy taking in the information and processing it into meaningful sentences and ideas. You’re hard at work (don’t feel guilty if this is on company time). You and your computer are “turned on” so to speak, [...]
Continue reading...Dziekanski: Is there any public trust left for the RCMP to erode?
11 May 2009
When it comes to respecting the public it serves, the RCMP leaves an astonishing lot to be desired.
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- Guest: Surely the issue is not about Pfizer reps specifically on the CIHR governing board.? I feel the issue is more about a conflict of interest between...
- Jason Millar: I take your point regarding the market/business experience. My understanding is that the board is required (though maybe in a loose sense) to have the...
- Michael Karlin: It's not as contrversial as it seems. He is one vote of 17, and adds some element of market expertise to the group. Most of the Governing Council...
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3 December 2009
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