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Jun 28 7 tweets 4 min read
Can New Software Spotlight Hidden Money Companies Pay to Doctors? disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/can-new-soft… @DisInfoChron interview w/ @CitizenViz who has created software to visualise #Purdue Pharma payments to doctors across America /1
This software was developed by Alex Rich, a grad student finishing a PhD on corporate influence on physicians. He previously discovered that the former Dean of Duke Medicine had aided the Sacklers. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/when-a-unc-g… @DukeU has done nothing, of course. /2
Rich has been using software to match payments to physicians, with those physicians' disclosures in peer reviewed journals. SURPRISE! The physicians aren't always disclosing their corporate payments. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/can-new-soft… /3
He did one study, presenting physicians w/ mocked up disclosures, traditionally placed at the bottom of a study in text. EXAMPLE: /4
He compared that to a graphic statement placed at the top of the article. This second example caused readers to scrutinize the study's conclusions more carefully.
EXAMPLE: /5
ALEX RICH: Most of these people believe they're doing the right thing. It just so happens that the majority of the things that they say tend to benefit a multi-billion-dollar corporation. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/can-new-soft… /6
To read the story and run the Purdue Pharma payments visualisation program, please subscribe, and read: Can New Software Spotlight Hidden Money Companies Pay to Doctors? disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/can-new-soft…
ALEX RICH: DICHRON INTERVIEW /END

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