In a classic example of public relations striving to lessen the impact of legislation like the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, Lilly reveals that it was planning be up-front about buying physicians all along: Starting next year, Eli Lilly and Co. will reveal how much money it pays physicians for speeches and consulting, shedding light on [...]
San Antonio Express-News photo journalist Bob Owen, believing the photograph of Dawson had been altered, notified AP, which agreed and pulled down the photo immediately. AP sent a “photo elimination” notice to its subscribers nationwide that said the photo was “digitally altered and does not accurately reflect the scene.” … Their poses, body types, placement [...]
The basis for my short, sweet, and to-the-point The time has finally come… post – Short Cuts by Daniel Soar – has made it to cnet news for an “exclusive” review of ThorpeGlen‘s telecommunications data analysis and extraction offerings. With the passage of laws like the FISA Amendments Act and the USA Patriot Act, in [...]
Breaking news: Department of the Interior employees have been accepting bribes from oil companies. In other news: the only thing that is absolutely wrong is getting caught, the Earth is round, this was obviously an isolated incident, and nothing like it will ever happen again.
It’s no secret that the FDA has ties to the pharmaceutical industry (even if they claim that it does not effect their behavior) – consider Donald Rumsfeld, former CEO of Searle Pharmaceuticals (he was the head honcho when aspartame (NutraSweet) passed FDA approval, despite outcry from doctors who had performed research and determined that the [...]
For those who have not been following the long story of lies and government corruption adjunct to tuna fish: Tuna is big business. Americans eat nearly three pounds of canned tuna per capita every year, making it the nation’s second most popular seafood (behind shrimp). The government promotes it via school lunch programs, wic (the [...]
cui bono? to whose benefit? (from Latin) A conspiracy may be defined as a plot between a group of people to commit an unlawful act – though, more generally, the concept of a conspiracy is known to mean an arrangement between a group of people to commit an act which, if revealed for its intent, [...]
