Nemeroff Accused Of "Science Pimping"
A big piece in the Miami Herald today on the University of Miami’s hiring of controversial psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff to head its psychiatry department. Here’s some of the fun stuff.
“The former head of psychiatry at Duke University told The Miami Herald Thursday that Nemeroff was ‘economical with the truth’ and his work can’t be trusted, while the leader of the Columbia University psychiatry program said Nemeroff was a top-flight scientist and he had never seen any bias in his work….”
“But Bernard Carroll, former head of psychiatry at Duke University and once Nemeroff’s boss, said parts of Nemeroff’s work involved Paxil, a GSK antidepressant. ‘Basically, he was doing basic science pimping for Paxil to produce talking points,’ Carroll told The Herald in an e-mail Thursday. ‘All he ever produced was speculation but that was enough to satisfy Glaxo marketing. . . . I have been exposing his shenanigans for some years.’
“Jeffrey Lieberman, head of psychiatry at Columbia University, praised Nemeroff as a leading expert in ‘basic neuroscience,’ studying underlying pathologies and proteins in the brain that cause mental illness. He said he had never detected ‘any undue influence or bias’ in Nemeroff’s research.”
I think Lieberman needs to re-review some of Nemeroff’s work and his CME pimping.
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