The New York Times likes to give the drug industry a hard time with its (unbranded) scandal of the week series—off-label promoting, suppressing data, that sort of thing. But when the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes were handed out on Monday, the winner for best investigative reporting was a series by the Times that even its harshest […]

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We read a lot of critiques of the pharma industry, and frankly many of them leave a lot to be desired in terms of logic, clarity, and thoughtfulness.
For an example of the opposite—a truly clear and scorching attack, let us recommend to you a document prepared by Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry […]

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STATS, the statistics-based media watchdog, has published its annual Dubious Data Awards, flagging the year’s worst science stories. It is, as usual, an impressive list: There’s the tale of the San Francisco mayor, who banned city agencies from buying water in plastic bottles, partly because they’re made of a chemical that sounds a lot like […]

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