Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I think that the analogy is there. In both case you have supposedly objective parties (journalists, doctors, medical journal editors) who are being influenced, or appear to be influenced, by the respective industries. Nathan Marc James Small wrote: > At 11:30 PM 3/18/2001 +0100, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > > >I do not know about the situation at major European papers like the Times, Le > >Monde etc. compared to their U.S. counterpart. I do know that American > doctors and > >medical journal editors accept enormous amounts of hospitality at > "conferences" > >organized by the drug companies and medical equipment manufacturers. > > > > Nathan > > Apples and oranges, Nathan. The issue BD was discussing was the treatment > of journalists who are to review products produced by a given company. He > made no comment on medical ethics, a totally different field. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/