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Dec 11, 2012	Scientists Propose Central Database for Disclosing Conflicts of Interest QUOTE: a lack of standardization in COI disclosures increases the administrative burden on physicians and increases the chances of being accused of incomplete and misleading statements. As a solution, their committee — facilitated by the Institute of Medicine — recommends the creation of a centralize database for the disclosure and reporting of interests.	Scholarly Kitchen
Nov 24, 2012	As drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias QUOTE: What only careful readers of the article would have gleaned is the extent of the financial connections between the drugmaker and the research.Whether these ties altered the report on Avandia may be impossible for readers to know. But while sorting through the data from more than 4,000 patients, the investigators missed hints of a danger that, when fully realized four years later, would lead to Avandia’s virtual disappearance from the United States: The drug raised the risk of heart attacks....	Washington Post
Oct 24, 2012	Tax Policy Center in Spotlight for Its Romney Study QUOTE: No white paper or policy manifesto put out during the presidential campaign has proved more controversial than an August study by the Washington-based Tax Policy Center, a respected nonprofit that issues studiously detailed tax analyses. That study found, in short, that Mr. Romney could not keep all of the promises he had made on individual tax reform...	New York Times
Sep 05, 2012	We must be open about our mistakes: Greater transparency about the scientific process and a closer focus on correcting defective data are the way forward QUOTE: The scientific community must be diligent in highlighting abuses, develop greater transparency and accessibility for its work, police research more effectively and exemplify laudable behaviour. This includes encouraging more open debate about misconduct and malpractice, exposing our dirty laundry and welcoming external examination....Peer pressure is a powerful tool — but only if peers are aware of infractions and bad practice.	Nature
Dec 26, 2011	Debate Persists on Deadly Flu Made Airborne QUOTE: The discovery has led advisers to the United States government, which paid for the research, to urge that the details be kept secret and not published in scientific journals to prevent the work from being replicated by terrorists, hostile governments or rogue scientists. Journal editors are taking the recommendation seriously, even though they normally resist any form of censorship.	New York Times
Dec 19, 2011	Elevation of the Chimp May Reshape Research QUOTE: When Dr. Francis S. Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, announced Thursday that the government would halt all new grants for research on chimpanzees....N.I.H. is the source of a river of money that flows into labs around the country where animals in the millions are, to misuse the words of an old Arlo Guthrie song, “injected, inspected, detected, infected” and a few other things, all in the cause of increasing knowledge and alleviating human suffering, of course.	New York Times
Jul 28, 2011	Useless Studies, Real Harm (Op-Ed) QUOTE: In an age of for-profit clinical research, this is the new face of scandal. Pharmaceutical companies promote their drugs with pseudo-studies that have little if any scientific merit, and patients naïvely sign up, unaware of the ways in which they are being used.	New York Times
Jul 07, 2011	How Bright Promise in Cancer Testing Fell Apart QUOTE: as patients and their doctors try to make critical decisions about serious illnesses, they may be getting worthless information that is based on bad science. The scientific world is concerned enough that two prominent groups, the National Cancer Institute and the Institute of Medicine, have begun examining the Duke case; they hope to find new ways to evaluate claims based on emerging and complex analyses of patterns of genes and other molecules.	New York Times
Jun 25, 2011	It’s Science, but Not Necessarily Right QUOTE: science fixes its mistakes more slowly, more fitfully and with more difficulty than Sagan’s words would suggest...Why? One simple answer is that it takes a lot of time to look back over other scientists’ work and replicate their experiments. Scientists are busy people, scrambling to get grants and tenure. As a result, papers that attract harsh criticism may nonetheless escape the careful scrutiny required if they are to be refuted.	New York Times
Jun 13, 2011	Scientists Measure the Accuracy of a Racism Claim QUOTE: physical anthropologists at the University of Pennsylvania, which owns Morton’s collection, have remeasured the skulls, and in an article that does little to burnish Dr	New York Times
May 27, 2010	Safety Rules Can’t Keep Up With Biotech Industry QUOTE: the estimated 232,000 employees in the nation’s most sophisticated biotechnology labs work amid imponderable hazards. And some critics say the modern biolab often has fewer federal safety regulations than a typical blue-collar factory.	New York Times
Apr 21, 2010	Tribe Wins Fight to Limit Research of Its DNA QUOTE: Seven years ago, the Havasupai Indians, who live amid the turquoise waterfalls and red cliffs miles deep in the Grand Canyon, issued a “banishment order” to keep Arizona State University employees from setting foot on their reservation — an ancient punishment for what they regarded as a genetic-era betrayal....their blood samples had been used to study many other things, including mental illness and theories of the tribe’s geographical origins that contradict their traditional stories.	New York Times
Mar 02, 2010	Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on Climate QUOTE: For months, climate scientists have taken a vicious beating in the media and on the Internet, accused of hiding data, covering up errors and suppressing alternate views...Tentatively and grudgingly, they are beginning to engage their critics, admit mistakes, open up their data and reshape the way they conduct their work.	New York Times
Nov 20, 2009	Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute QUOTE: Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.	New York Times
Nov 16, 2009	A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’ (Findings) QUOTE: These gestures [giving back artifacts to the original country] may make immediate pragmatic sense for museum curators worried about getting excavation permits and avoiding legal problems. But is this trend ultimately good for archaeology?	New York Times
Oct 22, 2009	Research Uproar at a Cancer Clinic QUOTE: community [research] centers may not always be adhering to the rigorous protocols of research medicine that the National Cancer Institute expects them to follow.	New York Times
Oct 22, 2009	F.D.A. Lags in Banning Researchers After Fraud QUOTE: In a review of 18 proceedings, investigators for the Government Accountability Office found that the F.D.A. took from 1 to 11 years to complete its process to ban researchers. This means many who were convicted of fraud remained eligible to conduct experiments for years.	New York Times
Oct 22, 2009	Editing Scientists: Science and Policy at the White House: How much do policymakers shape the science that comes out of government agencies? QUOTE: the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that significant editing of science documents had occurred during [Jim] Connaughton's tenure [of the Council on Environmental Quality] and the issue remains fraught with controversy: Just how much editing of government-funded science was done, and will it continue in future?	Scientific American
Oct 07, 2009	Personal genomics firms must come clean QUOTE: Companies that offer analyses of future health risks based on basic genetic tests should be more transparent about the limitations of their predictions, says genomics pioneer Craig Venter.	New Scientist
Oct 06, 2009	Anonymized genetic research data still carries privacy risks QUOTE: as the number of people genotyped grows, data sharing might be able to increase the statistical power of these experiments. But researchers are now cautioning that sharing the data might allow someone to learn about the people who contribute DNA samples to these studies.	Ars Technica
Sep 24, 2009	F.D.A. Reveals It Fell to a Push by Lawmakers QUOTE: The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that four New Jersey congressmen and its own former commissioner unduly influenced the process that led to its decision last year to approve a patch for injured knees, an approval it is now revisiting.	New York Times
Sep 21, 2009	Debate Flaring Over Grants for Research QUOTE: Managers at the National Institutes of Health are increasingly ignoring the advice of scientific review panels and giving hundreds of millions of dollars a year to scientists whose projects are deemed less scientifically worthy than those denied money.	New York Times
Sep 21, 2009	Science behind US coercive interrogations missing in action QUOTE: An article released by an academic journal today argues that the psychology equivalent of folk wisdom drove the decision to use coercive interrogation techniques during the Bush administration.	Ars Technica
Sep 21, 2009	When Less Paperwork Means No Science: The Paperwork Reduction Act and Unintended Consequences for Public Health Research QUOTE: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 has had the unintended effect of impeding research and evaluation in public health.	Science Progress
Sep 15, 2009	Where Cancer Progress Is Rare, One Man Says No (Forty Years' War) QUOTE: cancer has proven difficult to crack, leading to frustration among executives and advocates who wonder why the Food and Drug Administration is not approving more drugs.	New York Times
Sep 15, 2009	Cracking the Spine of Libel (The wild Side) QUOTE: English libel laws create particular difficulties for science journalists. Science, after all, is about evaluating evidence. Science journalism, sometimes, requires pointing out when evidence is weak or absent.	New York Times
Sep 10, 2009	Ghostwriting Is Called Rife in Medical Journals QUOTE: In the scientific literature, ghostwriting usually refers to medical writers, often sponsored by a drug or medical device company, who make major research or writing contributions to articles published under the names of academic authors. The concern... is that the work of industry-sponsored writers has the potential to introduce bias...	New York Times
Sep 04, 2009	For Your Health, Froot Loops QUOTE: He [nutritionist Walter C. Willett] said the criteria used by the Smart Choices Program were seriously flawed, allowing less healthy products, like sweet cereals and heavily salted packaged meals, to win its seal of approval.	New York Times
Sep 04, 2009	Awareness: Clinical Trial Rule Is Widely Ignored (Vital Signs) QUOTE: Many researchers are ignoring a 2005 requirement that they register proposed clinical trials in a government database as a condition for publishing their results in medical journals.	New York Times
Sep 04, 2009	Ethics scrutiny needed for Chinese–European projects: Panel calls for joint advisory body to monitor research. QUOTE: Biomedical research collaborations between Europe and China need greater ethical oversight to combat unregulated stem-cell therapies and prevent the exploitation of clinical-trial participants.	Nature
Sep 03, 2009	Academic researchers receive on average $33k a year from the medical industry (60-Second Science Blog) QUOTE: researchers in the ivory towers—and labs—of U.S. universities receive an average of $33,417 of funding a year from medical device, pharmaceutical and other medical industry companies...	Scientific American
Sep 02, 2009	The Fix Is In: The hidden public-private cartel that sets health care prices. QUOTE: Fundamentally, the entire payment model of American health care drives medical centers, doctors, and hospital managers to push for more fancy procedures at the expense of primary care doctors.	Slate
Sep 02, 2009	Pain-free animals could take suffering out of farming QUOTE: might "pain-free" be the next sticker slapped onto a rump roast? As unlikely as that may seem, progress in neuroscience and genetics in recent years makes it a very real possibility. In fact, according to one philosopher, we have an ethical duty to consider the option.	New Scientist
Sep 02, 2009	GM crops: Battlefield: Papers suggesting that biotech crops might harm the environment attract a hail of abuse from other scientists. Emily Waltz asks if the critics fight fair. QUOTE: some scientists say that this activity [attacking papers that criticize genetically modified crops] may be going beyond what is acceptable in scientific discussions, trampling important research questions and stifling debate.	Nature
Aug 25, 2009	Probe: New Orleans flood control pumps not reliable QUOTE: Huge flood-control pumps installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina don't protect the city adequately and the Army Corps of Engineers could have saved $430 million in replacement costs by buying proven equipment, a federal investigation finds.	USA TODAY
Aug 24, 2009	Research Trove: Patients’ Online Data QUOTE: Several private companies are now collecting patient data and genetic information online to use in recruiting patients for clinical trials, conducting research internally or to sell to drug and biotechnology companies.	New York Times
Aug 20, 2009	Microsoft tried to patent studying evolution QUOTE: it was recently discovered that, two years ago, Microsoft filed a patent for clustering phylogenetics methods, which have existed for years, and are currently in use by just about anyone who does evolutionary biology.	Ars Technica
Aug 20, 2009	A question of sex: Nature explains the science behind the latest gender row in sport. QUOTE: Here, Nature looks at the science behind the latest gender row [Caster Semenya] to hit sport.	Nature
Aug 19, 2009	Report: HPV vaccine may be going to the wrong women QUOTE: some doctors now question whether the [HPV] vaccine has been overpromoted to affluent women who need it least instead of patients most at risk of dying from the disease.	USA TODAY
Aug 18, 2009	CSI Fraud: researchers craft fake DNA evidence QUOTE: some researchers have now looked into whether it's possible to fake a valid DNA sample, and they have come up with a disturbing answer: just about any molecular biology lab has the tools to do so.	Ars Technica
Aug 18, 2009	Senator Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting QUOTE: A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation’s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies...	New York Times
Aug 18, 2009	You Say “Solution,” I Say “Pollution:” Ocean Fertilization is a Fishy Solution to a Whale of a Problem QUOTE: There are many compelling scientific arguments both for and against geoengineering via ocean fertilization... But even if our best science indicates that ocean fertilization will succeed, there are clear ethical reasons to rule it out...	Science Progress
Aug 16, 2009	Doctored Data Cast Doubt on Argentina: Economists Dispute Inflation Numbers QUOTE: in a globalized world, where a pensioner in Italy might be as likely to invest in Argentina as in Fiat, the suspected modifications [of socioeconomic data by the Argentinian agency National Institute of Statistics] are being felt far beyond this city [Buenos Aires].	Washington Post
Aug 10, 2009	Scientist Tackles Ethical Questions of Space Travel: A Conversation With Paul Root Wolpe QUOTE: NASA does hundreds of research studies. Every astronaut who goes into space is, essentially, a human research subject... One of the things I [bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe] do is look over the research protocols and make sure they are in compliance with earth-bound regulations about informed consent and health and safety.	New York Times
Aug 05, 2009	Studies Question Using Cement for Spine Injuries QUOTE: Two new studies cast serious doubt on a widely used and expensive treatment for painful fractures in the spine.	New York Times
Aug 04, 2009	More D.C. Kids Had Elevated Lead Than Stated QUOTE: More than twice as many D.C. children as previously reported by federal and local health officials had high levels of lead in their blood amid the city's drinking water crisis, according to congressional investigators, throwing into doubt assurances by those officials that the lead in tap water did not seriously harm city children.	Washington Post
Aug 04, 2009	Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy QUOTE: Newly unveiled court documents show that ghostwriters paid by a pharmaceutical company played a major role in producing 26 scientific papers backing the use of hormone replacement therapy in women, suggesting that the level of hidden industry influence on medical literature is broader than previously known.	New York Times
Aug 02, 2009	Lack of Study Volunteers Hobbles Cancer Fight ("Forty Years' War" part 4) QUOTE: There are more than 6,500 cancer clinical trials seeking adult patients, according to clinicaltrials.gov... But many will be abandoned along the way. More than one trial in five sponsored by the National Cancer Institute failed to enroll a single subject, and only half reached the minimum needed for a meaningful result Dr. [Scott] Ramsey and his colleague John Scoggins reported...	New York Times
Aug 01, 2009	Adaptive Evolution: A once-rare type of clinical trial that violates one of the sacred tenets of trial design is taking off, but is it worth the risk? QUOTE: in an increasingly common approach, a trial can be altered in various ways while it’s still in progress... Such modifications are based on a peek at interim data—which of necessity means unblinding the data before the trial’s completion.	Scientist, The (TS)
Jul 29, 2009	Unpopular Science QUOTE: The problem with the decline of science journalism is not just that there is less attention overall to science; it's that the remaining science coverage is less illuminating. Instead, it indulges in a variety of journalistic pathologies that thwart an improved public understanding of science.	Nation

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