How universities lost their way.
As philosopher Arthur Lovejoy, a founder of the
@AAUP, observed: "The distinctive social function of the scholar’s trade cannot be fulfilled, if those who pay the piper are permitted to call the tune."
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Barry Sherman’s donations sometimes used to wield political influence Apotex founder pulled back tens of millions promised to University of Toronto, Mount Sinai and Princess Margaret Hospital in the late ’90s in response to a decision by Ottawa.

Sometimes philanthropy is something else.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/bar...

Two found dead at home of Apotex billionaire Barry Sherman Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins mourns death of billionaire and his wife in a tweet Friday afternoon

www.toronto.com/news/two-fou...

Dozens of states, including Kansas, reach settlements with pharmaceutical companies accused in price-fixing scheme Connecticut led 50 states and territories, including Kansas, in a lawsuit against the two companies for deliberately reducing competition and inflating prices in the market.

Heritage #Pharma ($10M) & #Apotex ($39.1M) settle allegations of "widespread, long-running conspiracies" to price-fix #generic drugs.
www.wibw.com/2024/11/26/d... #fraud #greed #BarrySherman
Maybe we should be more careful whom we celebrate as "a great leader in health care"?
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Why we boycott Israel: ‘One day everyone will have always been against this’ ⋆ The Breach More than 6,000 literary workers have pledged to stop working with institutions that support the horrors in Gaza

Nothing is more true than this.
"One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
breachmedia.ca/why-we-boyco...
🙏@TheBreachMedia @omarelakkad

Home - In The Patients' Interest This website chronicles the controversy involving Barry Sherman’s Apotex, the University of Toronto, and The Hospital for Sick Children, which began in 1995. To this day this controversy continues in ...

Many revealing letters here.
#PatientHarms #deaths #Pharma
inthepatientsinterest.org

Decades after Motherisk wrongful conviction, we’ve cleared a woman but fixed nothing The lessons of Joyce Hayman’s wrongful conviction due to the Sick Kids Motherisk program parallel the many failures of accountability during COVID. The unnecessary third wave. The deaths that did not ...

Big 👏 to my colleagues who fought for years against the lying and bullying, misconduct and perjury, of Gideon Koren and against those who supported him at @uofTmedicine.
Sadly, nothing learned. Another tragedy just a matter of time.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Like this one...
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Inside the career of Motherisk founder Dr. Gideon Koren How prominent doctor built the Hospital for Sick Children’s Motherisk program into a leading world authority on drugs and pregnant and lactating women

Editing my book, cited this; realized it was 10 years old *yesterday*. The #Motherisk tragedy was just emerging.
But Koren remains, sadly, a grand example of the people who thrive in academia: www.thestar.com/news/gta/ins...
(despite the efforts of many…)
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Canadians with nonterminal conditions sought assisted dying for social reasons Some people have asked to be killed due to non-medical reasons – including isolation and homelessness

Canada once again on the world stage for #euthanasia:
"The law is too broad, or the professional guidance not precise enough. Or it is simply not seen as a priority to protect some of our most vulnerable citizens."
🙏@TrudoLemmens
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Sacking of wildlife biologists and chief medical officer linked to glyphosate Dissent crushed to protect New Brunswick’s glyphosate addiction

ICYMI: classic #whistleblower story.
Biologist fired after reporting #cancer link.
"No other explanation [for his firing]" says colleague who was also fired.
In 2015 New Brunswick’s CMO was fired.
All in the protection of #glyphosate.
gmwatch.org/en/106-news/... H/t @thackerpd

The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No by bioethicist Carl Elliot — Intima In The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No (W.W. Norton, 2024), bioethicist Carl Elliot begins his ethical exploration into whistleblowing in medical pr...

🔥 review of a 🔥 book @FearLoathingBTX & how he held his institution to account for #misconduct only to be "ostracized, denigrated & thoroughly disillusioned."
"But it is better for one to shed tears than to never open one’s eyes at all" 🎯@The_Intima
www.theintima.org/book-reviews...

Whistleblower’s decades long fight to save patients from dangerous research Nancy Olivieri chose to safeguard patients rather than protect her career when she blew the whistle on a drug trial she was leading. She tells The BMJ of her near 30 year fight for transparency and sa...

🙏@munkeatlooi & @bmj_latest for this interview,summarizing hours of discussion of a never-ending conflict ☹️

With quotes 🙏: @Richard56, @CitizenHRG, @FearLoathingBTX @rachelmendleson 

bmj.com/content/384/...
🙏@senseaboutsci #MaddoxPrize
#research #misconduct #accountability #whistleblower