Kickbacks in Academia
Preston McAfee, a Caltech economics professor, writes:
These schmucks are offering a bribe to the professor for using their text. It had to happen, but students in courses using their books ought to be extremely irate — you should feel the same way if your physician took a bribe from a pharmaceutical company for giving you a prescription.
February 12th, 2009 at 9:30 am
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February 12th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
well noted.
February 13th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Yes, Seth. If.
Not all doctors are immoral, ignorant drug peddling whores.
While our training has certain glaring deficiencies, and as humans we are subject to confirmation bias and other forms of fallacious thinking(see you hernia story), M.D.s in general mean well, and few would ever accept a bribe in treating a patient.
I read your blog regularly, and enjoy it. You clearly have biases of your own as well, but I take these into account when reading your work
Of note, I am on week one of my shangri-la self experiment. if it works
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:46 pm
There has been an update to this story:
http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/NSSP.html