#Whistleblower #Prof #Peds #Med #PublicHealth
Legal victories I can’t talk about yet.
Researcher. Veteran vs academic #corruption.
Book + mini-series underway.
Mar 27, 2023 • 20 tweets • 15 min read
"A controversy..which raises uncomfortable questions about the influence of funding from #BigPharma in...Toronto health institutions" - which Dr. Brenda Gallie & I struggled to expose for years
As @kathleengoldhar@blandrea outline: this wasn't just about a violent death, but the consequences of #Pharma "partnering" with academia.
🧵on why this matters to any who may ever need a prescription drug.
"Barry Sherman is the only person I have ever met with no redeeming features whatsoever":
🎯Dr. Morton Shulman in macleans.ca/news/canada/ba…
But this was not just a matter of an abrasive personality.
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Dec 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
In addition to its terrible injustice, this grim story may be of special interest to #Motherisk families (speaking of #accountability):
Broadwater was convicted on two pieces of evidence: Sebold's account; and a now-debunked #hair analysis: cnn.com/2021/11/24/us/…
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1/#Motherisk families were destroyed because #SickKids idol Dr Gideon Koren was believed about #hair samples arising from his allegedly "forensic" analysis.
Indeed, he was believed for a very long time. thestar.com/news/crime/201…
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But...did we miss the public report on "the vast body of work" by #SickKids and #Motherisk doc Koren (who was the object of fulsome praise from Dean of @uoftmedicine for his "research output")?....
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Oct 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Even after proven misconduct, researchers can always find another academic position: retractionwatch.com/2021/10/28/exc…@RetractionWatch
Familiar story, if one hails from Toronto...
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Recovery is possible after more than research misconduct. Koren's #Motherisk lab made million$ selling unverified hair tests, tearing apart vulnerable families, prompting two govt-commissioned inquiries retractionwatch.com/2019/02/19/con…
Unlike Motherisk families, Koren has thrived...
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Mar 15, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
💯 @BRAINCURES
True w/ other forms of ’investigations’ of academic #misconduct; I've never seen it go any other way: institutions attack or protect, depending on loyalties.
As I draft this (long) chapter of my book, thinking about institutional #accountability, a thread ... 1/6
At @uoftmedicine, carefully selected "consultants”, paid to “review” #Pharma-related scandal, gathered “information" from selected senior academics who lied, yet were believed. The “review" resulted in yrs of adverse actions against my colleagues & me: jme.bmj.com/content/30/1/8
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