Inside Higher Ed
www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/07/01/emory#Comments_
Double Standard At Emory?
Emory University has been accused repeatedly over the last
year of looking the other way while one of its prominent
physicians built extremely close ties to the pharmaceutical
industry and -- critics charge -- failed to adequately
report those ties as required by university and federal
regulations.
But what if you are an Emory professor who happens to
differ with the pharmaceutical industry? Then, it appears,
Emory watches you closely -- and if you are a blo gg er,
the university can tell you that you must remove the Emory
name from your We b site. That's why a recent post on the
J. Douglas Bremner's bl og Before You Take That Pill is
called "I Am Removing the Name of My University From This
Bl og." Bremner is professor of psychiatry and radiology at
Emory and as his bl og title suggests (as does his book
with the same name), he is an avid critic of the
pharmaceutical industry.
In the post, he notes that he was recently ordered to
remove the Emory name both by the interim chair of
psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and by the medical
school's executive associate dean for faculty affairs. In
the letters, which he provided to Inside Higher Ed, they
tell Bremner to remove Emory's name, lo go and letterhead
from his bl og because none of them can be used for "non-
Emory business." He was also told to report on when he had
removed Emory from his bl og......
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