JUNE 28, 2015 |
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PHARMAPHOBIA:
How the Conflict of Interest Myth
Undermines American Medical Innovation |
Our 1st guest:
Dr. Thomas Stossel, MD |
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Washington,
DC (April 27, 2015)
— For millennia, human survival has depended on our innate abilities
to fight pathogens and repair injuries. Only in recent history has
medical science improved the quality of our lives and assured
longevity. While physicians and academic researchers contribute to
such progress, the principal contributor is private industry, which
produces the tools — drugs and medical devices — that enable doctors
to prevent and cure diseases. Unfortunately, heavy regulation and
biology’s complexity and unpredictability make medical innovation
extremely difficult and expensive.
In
PHARMAPHOBIA: How the Conflict of Interest Myth Undermines
American Medical Innovation (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2015),
Tom Stossel, MD, a well-known
hematologist and an AEI scholar, describes how an ideological
crusade stretching over the last quarter-century, using distortion
and flawed logic in pursuit of theoretical professional purity, has
made medical innovation even harder.
As Dr. Stossel explains in PHARMAPHOBIA, bureaucrats, reporters,
politicians, and predatory lawyers have built careers attacking the
medical products industry, belittling its critical contributions to
medical innovation and accusing it of nonexistent malfeasance
including overselling product value, flaunting safety, and
corrupting physicians and academics who partner with it. The mania
has imposed “conflict-of-interest” regulations limiting or banning
valuable interactions between industry, physicians, and researchers
while diverting scarce resources away from medical research and
innovation and toward dealing with compliance issues.
At the heart of this destructive conflict-of-interest movement is
the false “insinuation that the medical products industry and those
who partner with it are corrupt, placing personal profit above
providing medical value.” According to this movement, the
performance and dissemination of research done by industry, or by
industry-sponsored academic researchers, is untrustworthy. Equally
suspect are efforts to make practitioners aware of such products and
explain how to use them. The regulations that flow from this false
narrative have undermined scientific progress and stifled American
medical innovation.
As Dr. Stossel demonstrates, the real victims are patients suffering
from cancer, dementia, and other serious diseases for which new
treatments are delayed, reduced, or eliminated as a result of these
pointless regulations. With powerful detail, Dr. Stossel — a
physician-researcher who has worked extensively in the biotechnology
industry — shows how attacking doctors who work with industry limits
medical innovation and prevents new life-saving products from
reaching patients. He then suggests what can be done to support
American medical innovation and stop this dangerous
conflict-of-interest movement.
PHARMAPHOBIA does the following:
•Authoritatively documents how private industry is the major engine
of medical innovation, which requires a partnership between
industry, physicians, and universities;
•Details the extensive damage done to medical innovation by
excessive conflict-of-interest allegations and the resulting
stifling regulations; and
•Proposes how Americans who care about medical innovation should
resist the vested interests that have created the damaging
allegations and regulations.
For interview requests or for a copy of the book, please contact
Paige Tenkhoff at
paige.tenkhoff@aei.org or (202) 862-5904.
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Hardcover Available
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1442244627
Hardcover Price: $38.00
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Publisher Name: Rowman & Littlefield
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Stephen Steinlight's Biography
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One
of the nation’s most insightful voices on immigration, Dr. Stephen
Steinlight is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration
Studies (CIS) in Washington, DC. He focuses on ascending trends in
immigration and immigration policy, America’s changing demography
and culture, the politics of immigration, the impact of immigration
on the nation’s social cohesion, and the consequences of massive
low-skill immigration on America’s most vulnerable groups. He is
also concerned with the nexus between immigration and national
security in an age of Jihadist terrorism and significant Muslim
migration to Western Europe and the United States.
Dr. Steinlight has testified before the Judiciary Committee of the
United States House of Representatives and the Judiciary Committee
of the United States Senate. He has also provided expert testimony
before state legislatures and State Freedom of Information
Commissions. He has shared podiums with members of the House and
presidential candidates. He has also addressed hundreds of state
legislator and civic and religious groups across the country, been a
panelist at conferences and public forums, and is frequently
interviewed on radio and TV. He has written extensively on many of
the central issues in the immigration debate.
Prior to joining CIS, he was Executive Director of the American
Anti-Slavery Group, the Boston-based abolitionist organization. For
eight years he was National Affairs Director at the American Jewish
Committee (AJC) where he oversaw its public policy agenda centered
on First Amendment issues, civil rights, immigration, and social
policy. While at AJC, Dr. Steinlight was a member of the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights and founded and served as Senior Advisor
to the critically-acclaimed commonQuest: The Magazine of
Black-Jewish Relations.
He also served as Vice President of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews (NCCJ) for three years. He convened the first
global interreligious dialogues involving dissident Muslim scholars;
played a lead role in propagating community-oriented policing;
worked on issues affecting Native Americans; and directed the
largest survey of intergroup attitudes ever undertaken in America:
Taking America’s Pulse: A Survey of Intergroup Attitudes in the
United States.
Prior to joining NCCJ, he was Director of Education at the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council, the body responsible for
developing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dr.
Steinlight was co-creator of the Museum’s “Remember the Children
Exhibition.”
A magna cum laude graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University,
upon graduation he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and received the
Columbia College Alumni Merit Award. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow,
a Kellett Fellow, and a Marshall Scholar at the University of
Sussex, England, where he received his M.Phil and PhD. He was a
professor of English and Victorian Studies for 20 years, teaching at
the University of Sussex, the State University of New York; the
Institút Britannique de Paris; and the School of Graduate Studies,
New York University. The recipient of numerous academic honors and
visiting professorship, he has been a Fellow of the National
Endowment for the Humanities and is currently an Associate Fellow at
Timothy Dwight College, Yale University.
Dr. Steinlight is author of two books: Fractious Nation? Unity and
Division in Contemporary American Life (UC-Berkeley Press, 2003);
and Children of Abraham (K’TAV 2002): An Introduction to Islam and
Islamism co-authored with one of the foremost scholar/opponents of
Islamism, the late Khalid Durán. Both authors received fatwas for
having written the book. Dr. Steinlight was also selected by the
United States Council for Peace to join a team of
conflict-resolution and civil society experts sent to Macedonia in
2003 to maintain the ceasefire in that nation’s civil war and create
a process for President Trajkovski and his cabinet to work with
leading jurists and former rebels to amend its constitution.
Dr. Steinlight lives in New York City. |
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Hour 2: "Protect
Our Water" |
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www.SiskiyouCountyWaterUsers.com |
Our
2nd guest:
Mark Baird
Today we are discussing the CA State
Dept. of Fish & Game and a host of other
agencies who impose regulations on
landowners with regard to water. The
loss of the recent Farm Bureau vs. Fish
& Game case revisits the old
battleground of 1602 permits for the
“substantial alteration of a stream bed,
bank or channel”. At this time there is
no legal definition of “substantial” so
the agencies have a weaponized
regulation with which to threaten and
punish landowners as they see fit.
This has a direct effect on water rights
by reducing the legal water allotment
that land owners use to irrigate their
pastures and fields. If they choose not
to get a permit they could face fines or
jail. If they get the permit they admit
that they need permission from an agency
to exercise their water right. Farmers
and ranchers believe this is a “water
grab” by the State of California and if
successful will create a major problem
for the rest of the state, including
municipalities that divert water for use
by residents.
Those involved with Scott Valley Protect
Our Water ad-hoc group are standing on
their U.S. and California Constitutional
rights, which protect Property Rights.
Court decisions have declared Water
Rights are a Property Right. If Water
Rights are affected and the state can
tell a landowner how much water he or
she can use — this is a “taking” of a
Property Right.
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