David Magnus Quotes (10 Quotes)

On the one hand, this highlights the fact that conflicts of interest can be found in a lot of different arenas. It's also pretty clear that the amount of influence is modest.

The field is littered with things that looked incredibly promising but, when exposed to harsh light of clinical trials, failed.

On the whole, it's a scary time in medical ethics because of consumer advertising. Leaving it up to the marketplace is not the optimal way to do medicine.

It's not that journals need to be more careful. Institutions need to be set up so that we don't produce this problem.

To say insurance companies should pay for stuff that is completely unproven is asking a lot from insurance companies.

The worry is if you humanize them too much you cross certain boundaries. But I don't think this research comes even close to that.

It's a tough, tough issue that people could legitimately have different views about. The prudential argument that we should be cautious in this case carries some weight, but in the end the consistency argument is the overriding one. If Massachusetts decides they are going to allow payment of egg donors, and California decides they aren't, then we won't be able to share cell lines derived from one state to another. Whatever policies wind up getting put in place for this kind of an issue, it's really important that everybody be on the same page and have the same policies.

Maybe they could have the veterinarians train people to carry out the executions.

I worry that we're learning the wrong lesson and that is to overhaul the peer-review process. In the end, science and scientific publication hinges on the integrity of practitioners and the fact that it's a communal activity. It was just a matter of time before this was found out.

Identifying the roles of different contributors is important. What does it mean that someone is listed as an author.