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It Gets Worse: Harvard Research Center Tied to Drug Company

By ddobbs on November 25, 2008.

More wheels coming off the bus.

Research Center Tied to Drug Company - NYTimes.com:

By GARDINER HARRIS

Published: November 24, 2008

When a Congressional investigation revealed in June that Dr. Joseph Biederman, a world-renowned child psychiatrist, had earned far more money from drug makers than he had reported to his university, he said that his interests were "solely in the advancement of medical treatment through rigorous and objective study."

But e-mail messages and internal documents from Johnson & Johnson made public in a court filing reveal that Dr. Biederman pushed the company to finance a research center at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, with a goal to "move forward the commercial goals of J.& J." The documents also show that the company prepared a draft summary of a study that Dr. Biederman, of Harvard, was said to have written.

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