Trial By Error: Bristol’s Report Due Soon; Slides from My Oxford Talk

[MSEsperanza]

By David Tuller, DrPH

http://www.virology.ws/2019/10/21/t...s-report-due-soon-slides-from-my-oxford-talk/

A day of reckoning could be coming for Bristol University and Professor Esther Crawley, the ethically challenged pediatrician whose work has come under official scrutiny (that is, under scrutiny from people with greater authority than me) on multiple fronts. According to the Health Research Authority, the National Health Service unit that overseas research ethics (or in this case, the lack of research ethics), Bristol’s supposedly “independent” investigation of Professor Crawley’s decision to exempt multiple studies from ethical review on the questionable grounds that they were “service evaluation” is due out this week–more than three months late [...]

In any event, I thought my October 19th talk in Oxford (not at Oxford) went pretty well–thanks to the Oxfordshire ME Group for Action, or OMEGA, for organizing it! During the talk, I noted that, as a public health professional, I have a right to share my thoughts on possible research and editorial misconduct. (I made sure to note as well that no one has deputized me to make such pronouncements in any official capacity–these are just my own opinions, although I know many other academics who share my views.) [...]

The full video of the talk will be posted in the near future. In the meantime, here are my slides:

LP Study talk

 

[Esther12]

A day of reckoning could be coming for Bristol University and Professor Esther Crawley

I feel a sense of dread about another UK cover-up. There have been so many examples recently showing that the truth really doesn't seem to matter here.

 

[dave30th]

I feel a sense of dread about another UK cover-up. There have been so many examples recently showing that the truth really doesn't seem to matter here.

I'm trying to keep a positive attitude, but it's hard.

 

[chrisb]

Stick with it @dave30th . I think your spellcheck must have provided the wrong word on a previous blog. It is not the culture of deference that is the problem. I t is the well established, and well known, culture of deferral or deferment.

That is all that any British enquiry is about. Kick the can down the road. Hit the ball into the long grass. The culture even has its own official vocabulary of cliches

 

[Barry]

I feel a sense of dread about another UK cover-up. There have been so many examples recently showing that the truth really doesn't seem to matter here.

The annoying thing about truth is that it gets in the way of beliefs for some, and they seem to be the ones who convince many to be true believers.

 

[Cheshire]

Posts about the newly released HRA report have been moved to this thread.

 

[Sly Saint]

video of Davids talk:
https://www.s4me.info/threads/david...lishment-19-oct-2019.11069/page-2#post-231390

 

[Esther12]

I feel a sense of dread about another UK cover-up. There have been so many examples recently showing that the truth really doesn't seem to matter here.

That was so inevitable that it doesn't even feel like a prediction!