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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If you missed a talk at Consilium by Aaron Mitchell last Thursday, watch it here: youtu.be/dBj9e70F7_o?si… Kevin Knopf Anne-Pierre Pickaert HealthSense Iva Parvanova Anticancer Fund Eric Low Bishal Gyawali Clare Turnbull- Prof/NHS Dr Martin Kaiser

“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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Join Consilium next week for a talk by Aaron Mitchell Sign up here mailchi.mp/consilium-scie… Anticancer Fund Kevin Knopf Eric Low Martin Kaiser Margaret McCartney John A Hickman Anne-Pierre Pickaert Iva Parvanova Susan Bewley Adam Cifu Clare Turnbull- Prof/NHS Dr Vinay Prasad MD MPH Vincent Rajkumar Josef M. Klein

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.
medscape.com/viewarticle/dr…

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:
goodreads.com/work/quotes/59…

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
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

If you missed Consilium talk by Margaret McCartney last Thursday, watch here: youtu.be/AY1KiEv0mGo?si… Susan Bewley HealthSense The BMJ Francois Maignen Bishal Gyawali David Colquhoun 🇺🇦 💙 Kevin Knopf Richard Lehman Dr. Nancy Olivieri

This. Is. Not. Good. HealthSense Consilium Scientific Sense about Science Royal College of Psychiatrists Royal College of PsychiatristsAddFac Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche madinamerica.com/2024/03/medica…

Free ! conflicts of interest, and why they are a wicked problem, why I've changed my mind about what we do about them, and what might be better than what we are doing now....

This Thursday - Margaret McCartney at Consilium! Sign up here mailchi.mp/consilium-scie… HealthSense Eric Low John A Hickman Susan Bewley Aaron Mitchell Kevin Knopf Martin Kaiser The BMJ Kim Witczak 💜 Richard Lehman

This is incredibly important. A lazy assumption (or a cynical fabrication) that what is good for big pharma is good for patients has allowed policy making at every level to be shaped to meet the economic interests of the industry.

A crisis in the making: Since 2000 the word polypharmacy has entered our lexicon, and with it has come falling life expectancies, even among children and a huge increase in mental illness. davidhealy.org/zen-and-and-ar…