Johns Hopkins Black Lung Expert, funded by coal co.'s : NO Blacklung in ANY of his 1500 patients!!!

[elehhhhna]

Every single claim he's looked at since 2000 - he's the Expert / Appointed Final decider on benefits - didn't see ONE CASE of advanced Black Lung despite a buhzillion other doctor's findings. Not one. Even as many of these patients deteriorated and died.

In cahoots with whom? Can't wait to find out. Place your bets here.


We are reaching critical mass and rejecting corporate command and control over us.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/investigation-johns-hopkins-tough-questions-black-lung-money/story?id=20721430

[hatrack]

1. Like UPS - wanted to endow a med school chair w. a guy who said no repetetive injuries exist

In 1995, United Parcel Service approached the University of Washington with an offer to establish a $2.5 million research chair in occupational orthopedics at the university's medical school. However, as the Wall Street Journal reported in February of 1998, this corporate philanthropy came with some very specific strings attached: UPS made it clear that they intended to have a particular researcher, Stanley Bigos, appointed to the endowed chair and granted tenure. Bigos' research pins the blame for workers' injuries on poor attitudes, rather than ergonomic or safety factors. UPS has fought recent government efforts to establish ergonomic standards in the workplace, and certainly wouldn't mind supporting further research that may help dilute or derail such standards.

While the negotiations between UPS and the University of Washington concluded without reaching an agreement, such corporate incursions into the hallowed halls of academia are occurring ever more frequently, threatening the very foundations of higher education in this country. Lawrence Soley provides a cogent analysis of this serious problem in Leasing the Ivory Tower: The Corporate Takeover of Academia (South End Press, 1995). Soley, Colnik Professor of Communication at Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI), debunks many conservative myths about higher education and exposes the increasing presence and corrupting influence of corporations on campus.

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Enterprising corporations that want to do more than simply sponsor individual faculty might establish research centers or think tanks on campus. Though more costly than funding professors, such money is often considered well-spent because, to the extent that such organizations are identified and affiliated with the host institution, they garner a veneer of objectivity and neutrality that obscures their corporate origins. Soley argues that research centers, such as the Iacocca Institute for Economic Competitiveness at Lehigh University and the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research at Georgia State University, "are essentially hubs of corporate influence," which "even admit openly that their primary goal is to serve industry rather than students." Many campus-based think tanks, such as the Hoover Institution at Stanford, provide a home for conservative critics who "produce and distribute right-wing and pro-corporate propaganda tracts disguised as research, while simultaneously denouncing the politicization of college campuses." As Soley sees it, the schools get something in return: "Universities welcome these think tanks because they bring substantial amounts of money to the university and create an ideological climate in which university-corporate ties can easily flourish."

Yet another way for corporations to spend their money on campus is by endowing professorships. Although for many years named professorships were established by wealthy patrons in honor of a distinguished professor or in the name of a deceased benefactor, "Increasingly, however, endowed chairs are funded by and named for corporations, conservative foundations, right-wing politicians, and breathing fat cats, rather than deceased alumni or scholars." As a result, many professors carry rather unusual, sometimes comical, appendages to their titles. Such sobriquets include: Bell South Professor of Education through Telecommunication (University of South Carolina), John McCoy-Banc One Corp. Professor of Creativity and Innovation (Stanford University), Carlson Travel Tourism and Hospitality Chair (University of Minnesota), Sears Roebuck Professor of Economics (University of Chicago), and the mouth-watering McLamore/Burger King Chair (University of Miami). Such endowed professorships often come with subtle or overt strings attached; faculty who don't advance the agenda of the funder are not considered for these financially attractive positions.

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http://www.upalumni.org/features/reviews/leasing-ivory-tower.html

[Blue_Tires]

5. Or the NFL's panel of "concussion experts"

And the Big Oil boys in Houston have for YEARS been handing out big research endowments to certain climate change "scientists"...Bullshit like this probably goes on much more than we know...

[jsr]

2. Industry-sponsored medical research at its finest

[RobertEarl]

3. No: It is science

I keep reading here on DU that if some science says that radiation is good for you, and that radiation can't get here from there, and you disagree, that you don't know science.

And now we have a doctor telling us lies? What's up with that? What will the know-it-alls have to say now? Bet they just ignore this thread.

[leanforward]

4. Can (fire) him.

So we're saying there are 2000 people that are suffering/have suffered for his good life and the life of the share holders.

[elehhhhna]

6. self regulation by coal and university interests

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