Tobacco was once the cash crop of the south. I grew up in North Carolina in the 1970s and early 1980s where…
Industry Funded Medical Research and The Integrity of the Scientific Method: Have We Lost Our Way?
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Recently, my middle school daughter has been learning about the use of the scientific method in science class. In her school laboratory,…
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When I was a medical student at Wake Forest University in the early 1990s I often had very full pockets in my…
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This week I came upon an article in the Wall Street Journal describing the challenges of producing a new “plus size MRI scanner“. Companies…