Dr. Charles Nemeroff and Emory University's Culture of Corruption

The Provocateur ^ | 07/10/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

Imagine if a school principal insisted year after year that their school use textbooks made only by one company. even though there are plenty of textbook companies out there. Imagine that this principal defends this company's textbooks and makes public statements about how valuable they are in the classroom. Imagine if it is revealed after more than a decade that while the principal was demanding that this company's textbooks be used at their school the company was paying the principal money to give speeches, advertise for them, and promote their product. Furthermore, it's revealed that the principal didn't even disclose a substantial portion of this income on their taxes. It's not hard to imagine how we would all perceive the principal. Now, imagine if the school board did remove that principal but allowed them to keep another cushy six figure job in the school's administration department even though these revelations came out. In this case, you'd not only determine that the principal was corrupt but you'd also likely conclude that so was the school's entire administration.

[GeronL]

That sounds like the classic definition of corruption

[parsifal]

Let me be sarcastic for a moment. Oh no! The doctor has no blame here. It is just lawyers and the tort system and all the malpractice suits that brought about all this.

parsy, who has heard these kind of comments the last few days on some of the medmal threads.

[myknowledge]

Maybe it’s their favorite textbook publisher.

[Trajan88]

College text books racket... Feds should use RICO against all parties.

In the mid-80s, I confronted a university bookstore manager over why I was told in December that one book I had was dropped from future consideration/use by profs for the spring semester (I had no use for a managerial accounting text in my semester away post-college life).

Low and behold in late January, there's the same book/same edition on all the acct. profs' required lists... bookstore was selling used versions of the tomb at a shade under new price.

RAGE!