On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:23:10 -0700, Santosh Helekar, wrote : <<<There seems to be a lack of clarity about the meaning of basic concepts such as conspiracy, ethics and evidence in the post appended below. Hopefully, almost everybody in this forum knows the following: 1. That a global conspiracy or mafia involves a large group or organization of people throughout the whole world colluding with each other to commit a crime. Individuals engaging in criminal or unethical behavior on their own do not constitute a global conspiracy. 2. Evidence represents the truth. One cannot accuse anybody of engaging in unethical behavior without providing truthful evidence. It is irresponsible for anybody to claim that there is a global mafia involving scientists without producing evidence. 3. It is unethical to provide false information of any kind in a public forum, let alone false medical information from unreliable conspiratorial websites. 4. The only ethical and proper thing to do in respect of providing medical information is to refer to a responsible and reliable medical source such as the public health resource website of a recognized medical institution or organization, and/or to clearly state the information that they have made available. Cheers, Santosh>>>
COMMENT : I regret to state that there is enough clarity on this issue, but profound blindness on the part of some who want to behave like ostriches. The conspiracy and eroded ethics is clear here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/20/drug-companies-ghost-writing-journalism AND HERE: http://indiacurrentaffairs.org/novartis-must-not-win-this-case-amit-sen-gupta/ Do I need to elaborate more about conspiracies and ethics? About unholy nexus of Drug Companies and Research scientists and Politicians? Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
