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20-08-2003, 04:32 AM

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Hey!* (paghat)!* It's been a long
time! How ya been?* Last time i saw you, you were posting in
rec.gardens and wrote this:

I was a medical editor,

I highly doubt this. You've displayed the ability to copy words from
reports, but your ability to evaluate what they say is notably
lacking.

I'll also note your reported lack of ethics.

No, you were no medical editor. You were a shill. A monkey who
could type what she was told to type.

There's nothing to be proud of, there.

Billo has been a great example of the fact that, no, there are very few
ethics at work in research -- they have some ghost writer write or revise
for them some good ideas for ethics, but the only ethic in a publish or
perish environment is "don't perish." And as an editor I was in no
position to send something back to be researched more fully, I just had to
try to make bad writing readable for publication. But it's certainly why I
quit -- being forced, with no particular qualification, to ghost write an
entire article from raw data was the last straw for me. I have written in
the past how often I undermined the system -- I was a whistleblower on
some of the research that was unnecessarily cruel to animals, until one of
the biological supply houses found out it was me & they tried to get me
fired. I wasn't fired; I just had my vivarium key taken away so I couldn't
get access to the dirty little secrets for first-hand reports. The surgeon
I ended up working for the most was the only one who (at the insistance of
his key research assistant without whom he'd've been out on a limb)
refused to use animal models, but obtained actual human fluids from
duodenal & pancreatic surgeries, resulting presumedly in better data than
if it'd been fluids of diseased hamsters. But it was this
way-better-than-average department that trumped up data in a single week
pretending it took all year -- so the best & most decent people I
encountered still took as their only ethic "don't perish."

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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