Sergio Sismondo studies how Big Pharma tries to establish control over medical knowledge. See the book Ghost-Managed: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands.
Joined July 2018
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
16 Jun 2023
It was confusing replying to critics of our paper because some argued the serotonin hypothesis of depression was long ago discarded, some argued it was still supported - and some argued both. @joannamoncrieff @HengartnerMP @PloederlM go.nature.com/3NcQDKZ
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And looking forward to it!
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Great work by Marc-André Gagnon, and an excellent report by Kelly Crowe.
23 Mar 2023
My most recent paper is discussed in the media!
Pharma lobby paid StatCan for reports then used in industry PR push breachmedia.ca/pharma-lobby-…
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
17 Mar 2023
Pharma often sponsors patient organizations / advocacy groups — but this is really another unruly (and worrisome) aspect of what @GhostManagedMed has described as “assemblage marketing”.
theguardian.com/us-news/2023…
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
12 Jan 2023
📢 Submit your paper to our “Understanding “ghost-management”: Investigating corporate strategies to shape & control knowledge, beliefs and practices to the detriment of public health” panel @_IPPA_, June 27-29, Toronto
⌛️Deadline: January 31, 2023
📃CFP:
ippapublicpolicy.org/confere…
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
24 Nov 2022
Interested in behind-the-scene corporate strategies to influence science, opinion, & policy-makers? Check out our website for new publications, events, activities, resources and relevant ghost management news 🗞️ Please help us spread the word👻❤️@MA_Gagnon
carleton.ca/ghostmanagement/
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
31 Oct 2022
Huge 🙏 @lizctucker for 🎯podcast about this long conflict.
"The #Whistleblower Who Inspired a John Le Carré Novel":
liztucker.substack.com/p/the…
#AcademicFreedom #PatientSafety #InstitutionalCorruption #AcademicTwitter
@GPLLP @CAUT_ACPPU @utfaculty
Seems this may never be over...
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
25 Oct 2022
Sorry to miss what's going to be a fantastic talk by @ShobitaP! It clashes with a marathon college committee stint of mine. This recent paper is bound to become an #STS classic... journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
17 Oct 2022
“Academia seems to view error-checking as a dirty footnote to the achievement of publication."
🎯@lonnibesancon @GidMK @MicrobiomDigest @jamesheathers, all of whom while voluntarily correcting the scientific record, have been threatened & defamed.
journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
14 Oct 2022
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14 Sep 2022
This just published and sure to irritate most of you and intrigue some — Political Prescriptions: Three Pandemic Stories - Nishtha Bharti, Sergio Sismondo, 2022 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
13 Aug 2022
Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit
By Robert Whitaker
As psychiatrists publicly commented on the Moncrieff et al paper (finding no evidence of an association between serotonin and depression), a second confession appeared...
madinamerica.com/2022/08/psy…
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
20 Jul 2022
Guardian piece on our new study of serotonin research theguardian.com/society/2022… @markhoro @HengartnerMP @ReadReadj @ClinpsychLucy
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
20 Jul 2022
Our new review is the first to systematic overview of all the main areas of research and concludes there is no evidence of a link between low serotonin and depression nature.com/articles/s41380-0… THREAD
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
30 Jun 2022
Is nothing sacred?
ICYMI (I did) In addition to #BigPharma, #BigAlcohol, #BigSugar et al we now have #BigPasta, with “explanations” from researchers to justify #ConflictsOfInterest that are pathetically familiar.
And just pathetic.
buzzfeednews.com/article/ste…
Implications...
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
30 Jun 2022
Research contract gave Bayer control of neonics study methods, but university researchers claim full credit via @USRightToKnow usrtk.org/pesticides/bayer-s…
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
30 Jun 2022
Industry sponsorship bias in cost effectiveness analysis: registry based analysis bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021…
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GhostManagedMedicine retweeted
30 May 2022
Book review just out by lab member Mattia Andreoletti, exploring the question "Is medical science for sale?" rdcu.be/cOBo4 @GhostManagedMed
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Congratulations, Emma! @profemmakowal