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WINDY CITY BLUES There is an academic ethics mess brewing in the windy city… at The University of Chicago. It involves a start-up Chicago co...

WHEN IS DISCLOSURE NOT DISCLOSURE? Hint: When it is made by the Chairman of the DSM-5 Task Force. Here is a case study in conflict of intere...

THREE STRIKES AND … Professor Charles Nemeroff is being honored today in London. He will deliver a high profile lecture at the Institute of ...

WALK THE WALK For some time a jeremiad theme has been dominant in the psychiatric sector of the academic-industrial complex . Blockbuster ps...

DOES AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY MATTER? The blogmeister of 1boringoldman.com has done it again. A semi-retired psychiatrist in rural Georgia, he ha...

HARVARD PSYCHIATRY FAILS AGAIN About a year ago I remarked upon the ethical tone deafness that characterizes Harvard psychiatry. It is bad e...

SELF INFLICTED DAMAGE The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is in the news again for bad public relations: worse than bad, actually – a...

Revised HHS Rules for Conflict of Interest Fall Short This morning NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins announced revisions to the existing 199...

…THEM OR YOUR LYING EYES? A few days ago I discussed stonewalling by the American Psychiatric Association over charges that they were partn...

WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE? Ghostwriting Charges and Stonewalling at the American Psychiatric Association The American Psychiatric Association ca...

IMPEACHMENT: IT’S ABOUT THE INSTITUTION, NOT THE PERSON The impeachment trial of Judge G. Thomas Porteous of Louisiana this week was a lesso...

THAT’S EDUCATION! You can’t make this stuff up. This week I received a cheerful E-mail from a well known academic key opinion leader or KOL....

ETHICS TURNAROUND (sort of) by NIH INSTITUTE DIRECTOR What a difference a month makes. When I went on vacation in June the Director of NIMH,...

INSEL and NEMEROFF – WHAT SANCTIONS? Thomas Insel, Director of NIMH, has another posting in his own defense on his official blog today. He ...

Public Trust at NIMH? The NIMH Director, Thomas Insel, MD, is under siege for his problematic relationship with Charles Nemeroff. In his own...

Happy Times at NIMH – PART III The unraveling of Thomas Insel, MD, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health continues. His ties w...