From UD‘s friend Bill at The Periodic Table — a link to an editorial in the Minnesota Star-Tribune excoriating the University of Minnesota for ineptitude and indifference in regard to conflict of interest among its professors.
How is it possible to assess a conflict of interest, much less manage it, if [university] officials don’t know how much money is involved?
Grassley’s letter about COI to the university was “embarrassing,” writes the Strib.
Things at UM are going to get worse before they get better. UD thinks they should start stockpiling anti-embarrassment pills.
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Oh. The quotation in my headline, taken from the Strib editorial, is from Arthur Caplan, the country’s best-known medical ethicist.
August 16th, 2009 at 11:32AM
From Wikipedia’s entry on Arthur Caplan: "Caplan taught at the University of Minnesota."
August 16th, 2009 at 11:57AM
Learned his subject at the foot of the master.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:39AM
Here’s an instance in which management (in terms of butts in chairs) has NOT been lacking.