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The House ethics committee revealed its charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel (D– N.Y.) last week. Progressive bloggers were keen to point out that they didn’t add any significant facts to what had already been reported. However, that reaction was not entirely true, as the New York Post, which broke several of the key Rangel stories, [...]
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Jun
25
If you’ve every doubted whether medical research is thoroughly contaminated by conflicts of interest and corporate dollars, be sure to read Marcia Angell, the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, in the latest Boston Review.
Consider the following statistic she cites:
[I]n 2004, after the NIH National Cholesterol Education Program called for sharply lowering [...]
Apr
19
Over at Psychology Today, I explain why the repeated calls for more ethics classes in the wake of public scandals say more about our social malaise than about how to fix it.
