Posted by Squiggles on May 12, 2006, at 15:30:44
In reply to Re: Statistical question on SSRIs, posted by genes-r-us on May 11, 2006, at 12:35:11
> Hi, first time poster here. Well, I just wrote a reasonably long and (hopefully) informative post on what happened between Dr. Healy and the University of Toronto, but the post submission process ate it, and I don't have the energy to re-do the whole thing from scratch.I hope you find time to repost it - it would
be interesting to read from a new poster.
Suffice it to say that Dr. Healy was given a formal offer of a position at a University of Toronto associated centre, made his infamous comments in an introductory lecture, and was promptly relieved of his emplyoment offer.It does appear that there are certain links
missing to the public and maybe the court.
Was it the content that was threatening to
the product Prozac (Healy says U of T knew
of his opinions beforehand); or was it his
"worldview" which disturbed them or made them
see him in a new light? Or was it possibly an
agreement he made with the U of T, which he
broke in his speech? We don't know. At least,
I don't know.Eli Lilly, by the way, appears to have been the largest outside source of funding for the centre at the time this all happened (and may still well be).
That's irrelevant. You may as well say that
so and so slept with a colleague. Furthermore,
there is no evidence that Eli Lilly played a role, nor that is a conspiracy theory came true, and
the "truth" was revealed, that Eli Lilly's stock
would suffer any substantial damage, great enough to take action against the hiring of a radical
professor. Though, i can understand that the
infamous corridor floating around the net
cooler may make people believe Lilly had a role.So one can't use the fact that he was stripped of his position as a factor when considering the validity of his views on this issue, much as it's not particularly informative to define a word using the word itself in the definition.
I don't understand the above paragraph.
Squiggles
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