The LA Times has been running a series of articles on the influence of drug companies on doctors. Whatever the merits of the articles may be, I found the opening of one of them to be particularly …
Reps, Lawyers, Bureaucrats – What’s the Biggest Problem?
Ed Silverman over at Pharmalot wrote up a quick post on the cost (to doctors) of spending time with drug reps. You can read the full article here - the bottom line of the calculation was that, on …
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Applying some Stem Cell Skepticism
I just wrote a post on this blog about the place of skepticism when reading news, or any other source of spin for that matter. Then I saw this news article, which really got me steamed. As I …
About the Impactiviti Blog
This month marks the one-year anniversary of my blog here at Impactiviti. I thought it might be a good time to pause and explain, to my readers, what this blog is about, and why it is different from …
Being a Professional Skeptic
So now we find out the details on how the Big Hormone Scare of 2002 was seriously overblown. Some voices were raised, at that time, about the flawed methodology used to draw those early conclusions …
The New Transparency
Time was, corporate misdeeds could be pretty effectively covered up. Sure, some scandals would leak out and make headlines, but information could often be contained, insiders constrained, or ignorance …