When it awarded yet another multimillion-dollar grant to Charles Nemeroff, a key figure in the controversy over conflicts of interest involving pharmaceutical research, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley demanded that the NIH justify the decision. In an August 3 letter, an NIH deputy director writes that “all procedures have been followed carefully” but, according to this article in Pharmalot NIH reviewers were unaware of an investigation into Nemeroff by the US Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General and the US Department of Justice. “The NIH, however, was keenly aware that the grant was likely to cause a stir and … released so-called talking points.”
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Isn’t it time to initiate a petition addressed to Francis Collins, NIH director, about this? That someone so tainted by conflicts of interests and ghostwriting is given tax payer money so he can continue defrauding is appalling. C’mon Mad in America!
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How do you go about initiating a petition? I’ll gladly sign. This guy got a light smack on his hand, which amounted to nothing. And now he’s going to get millions of dollars for supporting some whack job idea concoted by the drug companies. It’s pretty disgusting.
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One of the big things that strikes me about all of this is how the graft and corruption is so invasive in so many organizations. It permeates the drug companies, psychiatry, the FDA, and all of the government organizations that are involved with the healt of this nation. Besides being disgusting it’s also pretty frightening became of how pervasive and far reaching the whole thing turns out to be.
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Sorry, should have been because and not became.
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