A large number of you have passed along Judith Warner's latest "Domestic Disturbances" column from today's Times. Thanks. In it, Warner, who is generally a pharma defender and author of a forthcoming book on children's mental health (which I simply cannot wait to see), carves up Emory University's Charles Nemeroff. You know the guy: big depression researcher in the news in the last week for taking millions from Big Pharma for marketing their ineffective drugs and possibly running afoul of federal research regulations, since he's also been taking NIH money at the same time. Judy sees the Nemeroff affair as: "....yet another iteration of the ever-unfolding saga of greed and how the deregulation of absolutely everything has brought our country to this painful season of reckoning. Because Nemeroff’s story – which is hardly unique...
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