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Dr. Nancy Olivieri

@nancyolivieri.bsky.social
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#Whistleblower #Prof #Peds #Med #PublicHealth Legal victories I can’t talk about yet. Researcher. Veteran vs academic #corruption. Book + mini-series underway.

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Dr. Nancy Olivieri @nancyolivieri.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
How universities lost their way. As philosopher Arthur Lovejoy, a founder of the @AAUP, observed: "The distinctive social function of the scholar’s trade cannot be fulfilled, if those who pay the piper are permitted to call the tune." sapirjournal.org/university/2...
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(Wilhelm von) Humboldt’s Gift | SAPIR Journal
The idea of the modern university is often associated with the name Wilhelm von Humboldt, the Prussian philosopher of education at whose in...
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri @nancyolivieri.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Heritage #Pharma ($10M) & #Apotex ($39.1M) settle allegations of "widespread, long-running conspiracies" to price-fix #generic drugs. www.wibw.com/2024/11/26/d... #fraud #greed #BarrySherman Maybe we should be more careful whom we celebrate as "a great leader in health care"? /1
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Dozens of states, including Kansas, reach settlements with pharmaceutical companies accused in price-fixing scheme
Connecticut led 50 states and territories, including Kansas, in a lawsuit against the two companies for deliberately reducing competition and inflating prices in the market.
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri @nancyolivieri.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Nothing is more true than this. "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." breachmedia.ca/why-we-boyco... 🙏@TheBreachMedia @omarelakkad
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Why we boycott Israel: ‘One day everyone will have always been against this’ ⋆ The Breach
More than 6,000 literary workers have pledged to stop working with institutions that support the horrors in Gaza
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri @nancyolivieri.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Editing my book, cited this; realized it was 10 years old *yesterday*. The #Motherisk tragedy was just emerging. But Koren remains, sadly, a grand example of the people who thrive in academia: www.thestar.com/news/gta/ins... (despite the efforts of many…) 1/
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Inside the career of Motherisk founder Dr. Gideon Koren
How prominent doctor built the Hospital for Sick Children’s Motherisk program into a leading world authority on drugs and pregnant and lactating women
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri @nancyolivieri.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Canada once again on the world stage for #euthanasia: "The law is too broad, or the professional guidance not precise enough. Or it is simply not seen as a priority to protect some of our most vulnerable citizens." 🙏@TrudoLemmens www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
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Canadians with nonterminal conditions sought assisted dying for social reasons
Some people have asked to be killed due to non-medical reasons – including isolation and homelessness
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri @nancyolivieri.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
ICYMI: classic #whistleblower story. Biologist fired after reporting #cancer link. "No other explanation [for his firing]" says colleague who was also fired. In 2015 New Brunswick’s CMO was fired. All in the protection of #glyphosate. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/... H/t @thackerpd
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Sacking of wildlife biologists and chief medical officer linked to glyphosate
Dissent crushed to protect New Brunswick’s glyphosate addiction
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri @nancyolivieri.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🔥 review of a 🔥 book @FearLoathingBTX & how he held his institution to account for #misconduct only to be "ostracized, denigrated & thoroughly disillusioned." "But it is better for one to shed tears than to never open one’s eyes at all" 🎯@The_Intima www.theintima.org/book-reviews...
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No by bioethicist Carl Elliot — Intima
In The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No (W.W. Norton, 2024), bioethicist Carl Elliot begins his ethical exploration into whistleblowing in medical pr...
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Dr. Nancy Olivieri @nancyolivieri.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
🙏@munkeatlooi & @bmj_latest for this interview,summarizing hours of discussion of a never-ending conflict ☹️ With quotes 🙏: @Richard56, @CitizenHRG, @FearLoathingBTX @rachelmendleson  bmj.com/content/384/... 🙏@senseaboutsci #MaddoxPrize #research #misconduct #accountability #whistleblower
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Whistleblower’s decades long fight to save patients from dangerous research
Nancy Olivieri chose to safeguard patients rather than protect her career when she blew the whistle on a drug trial she was leading. She tells The BMJ of her near 30 year fight for transparency and sa...
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