Tomorrow I will be giving a talk about what I discovered in my 20+ years of “Accidental Advocacy” about Big Pharma’s spiderweb of influence over our healthcare system.

Thanks Consilium Scientific for the invitation.
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I had a lot of fun last week giving this talk at Consilium Scientific! Give it a watch, if you are interested in hearing my overview of physician-industry COI in oncology, including our recent study in The BMJ:
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“Industry gifts and money appear to be capable of inducing harmful prescribing” interesting ⁦Consilium Scientific⁩ presentation from ⁦Aaron Mitchell⁩

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This is a must-see on many levels. While watching it I became frightened at how things are so similar in my field of #Statistics especially related to Sabine Hossenfelder 's comment 'They just wanted to write papers', plus how fad-driven is #Statistics .

I'm really looking forward to this talk!
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More equitable and fair distribution of biomedical innovation is a shared responsibility. Our report maps out relevant initiatives on public return and provides recommendations to a range of stakeholders.

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Almost two thirds of eligible physicians received a payment from a drug or device maker from 2013 to 2022. “Doctors should not be allowed to get gifts from pharmaceutical companies' says Fugh-Berman.
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Best short summary how/why FDA is now just marketing shill for Big Pharma/not protector of public.

Suggests easy ways to tame Pharma/restore FDA's original role- guaranteeing safe/effective/affordable meds.

What stops this?
Pharma bribes the politicians!
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April fools or not this has a great list of reasons that p-values don’t give us what we need.

People ask what's best book re #EvolutionaryPsychiatry .

I recommend:
'Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry' Randy Nesse

Instructive for clinicians/wonderfully helpful for patients.

Here are some great quotes:
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Wonderful short piece explains why you can't trust medical guidelines.

Trouble is they are written by 'experts' who have:
1)strong subjective bias
2)intellectual & financial conflicts of interest
3)too much love for pet diagnosis 4)overvalue own opinions
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