Posted by SLS on May 16, 2013, at 23:29:55
In reply to The NIMH and its ties., posted by SLS on May 16, 2013, at 12:59:41
> > > You see, the NIMH and other agencies have ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
> > Would you care to describe the nature of, and provide evidence for, the ties that you purport the NIMH to have with the pharmaceutical industry?
> [Psychiatry and the Pharmaceutical Complex, the Alliance]
This article insinuates corruption on the part of the NIH, yet fails to provide evidence of corrupt affiliations and behaviors. It also declares guilt by association.Is anyone willing to state that the motives of the NIH when issuing grants is to divert funds to produce wealth in the pharmaceutical industry? Is there any evidence of the NIH intentionally manufacturing false data to further the accumulation of wealth by the pharmaceutical industry?
I don't have statistics handy, but I know that the number of grants issued by the NIMH and other neuroscience-oriented NIH institutes is very large. At worst, the NIH sometimes issues grants to institutions that abuse its funds and operate unethically. It is impossible to produce oversight before the fact.
It is a fallacious argument that affiliation equates to corruption. Just because an investigator gives lectures to pharmaceutical companies and acts as a consultant does not indicate de facto corruption. I do not subscribe to the conspiracy theory portrayed by this article.
> > The NIH shares important information with the rest of the world, including pharmaceutical companies. This is a good thing.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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