Oops! I forgot

Charles Nemeroff, a prominent professor of psychiatry at Emory University has a bit of a memory problem. He forgot to disclose to his employer that he received $500,000 from the drug company, Glaxo, while getting paid by the taxpayer for studying the company's drugs. He gave lectures to other doctors (who dole these drugs out to you and I) about Glaxo's "blockbuster" anti-depressant, Paxil.

The good doctor denied having a "significant relationship with Glaxo. Emory bosses say they have a "conflicts threshold" of 10,000 a year. But it turns out the doc received $960,000 from Glaxo while telling his bosses he received $35,000. Not a bad deal. I doubt if he had any bad things to say about Glaxo's drugs. I am pretty sure too that those above him knew about these and said nothing; they're all liars.

The prof received $3500 a speech plus expenses, at times giving 2 a day

Being the good citizen that he is, the doc "voluntarily" stepped down "pending resolution of the issue" according to the Wall Street Journal. Isn't that swell of him?

Glaxo, the drug dealers, claim that they have "rigorous guidlines governing our interaction with health care preofessionals" who speak at their events, and requires them to "proactively disclose" these relationships.

And this is the tip of the iceberg. On top of it, millions of people in the US can't get health care or lose all their life's possesions because they go bankrupt due to illness. These people, the universities, the drug giants, will not police themselves or protect working people. The whole system is rotten with corruption and as long as the provision of medical care and other social needs are in private hands this will continue. Just like the rest of the economy, the capitalists will not "self regulate" they never have and they never will. The very nature of the system forces them to do what they do.

The only solution in health care, the development, research and technique associated with it as well as all the forces of production in society as a whole, is to free them from the slavery of the "cabal of private interests".

Does anyone not seriously believe that the working class in control of production and the planning and use of society's resources cannot do better than this?

As has already been stated on these pages, the capitalist class has forfeited their right to govern.

Do you think the honorable professor will get the same sentence as OJ?