Big Pharma Gets Its Hooks into Seton Hall Law School

[donsu]

http://counterpunch.com/ccr05032007.html


"Now They Want to Shape the Minds of Young Lawyers"
Big Pharma Gets Its Hooks into Seton Hall Law School


For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has marinated the medical profession in millions of dollars of free samples, lunches, trips, and fees.

The goal--influence, power, profits.

Now, the industry has another target--the legal profession.

Last week, industry leaders Schering-Plough Corporation, sanofi-aventis, Johnson & Johnson and Bristol Myers Squibb and the pharma law firm Gibbons PC--announced that they will donate a total of $9.1 million to establish the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey.

"This is what they have been doing with doctors for the last five decades--shaping young doctors' minds," said Peter Rost, a former vice president at Pfizer, CounterPunch contributor and author of The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Soft Skull Press, 2006). "Now they want to shape the minds of young lawyers."

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A spokesperson for Seton Hall Law School, Kathleen Eagan, said she could not provide anyone for an interview about the project--although last week, the Law School did distribute a press release and held a press conference about the donations.
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Seton Hall has been corrupted by neo cons - Seton Hall isn't so stupid not to know they will be dispensing kool aide.


a pox on pharma barons and Seton Hall

[kestrel91316]

1. What's a person to do??? We MUST ignore every word uttered

by all physicians and veterinarians, because they're all lying, corrupt shills. Now we have to ignore all attorneys, too.

Guess we'll have to get all our medical, veterinary, and legal advice from laypersons on DU.

[AX10]

2. I'm sorry to say that there will be people around..

here who will support this.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. I know. This is terrible.

This is the worst thing that's happened since Oprah built that school in Africa.

[donsu]

5. then they are neo cons

nt

[WiseButAngrySara]

3. Honestly, I'm just surprised that it hasn't happened sooner, and

you can bet that it is already there, below the surface. I'm sure there are many lawyers who are pro Big Pharm, because it is so lucrative. People sell their souls every frigging day.