Watching the Detectives: Logical Fallacies and Unsubstantiated Claims to Denigrate Investigations of Leaders' Conflicts of Interest and Alleged Corruption

Introduction: Logical Fallacies and Unsubstantiated Claims in Defense of Conflicts of Interest in Health Care

We have long been concerned about deceptive marketing to sell health care products, and deceptive public relations to push policy positions favorable to health care organizations' leaders.  Deceptive marketing and public relations may morph into stealth marketing and stealth advocacy,

Retaliation against physicians reporting EHR flaws that cause use errors? Physicians subpoenaed in Rhode Island, allegedly after reporting EHR risks

It appears that way to my eye.  First, on use errors (as opposed to user errors from carelessness):


“Use error” is a term used very
specifically by NIST to refer to user interface designs that will
engender users to make errors of commission or omission. It is true that
users do make errors, but many errors are due not to user error per se
but due to designs that are flawed, e.g., poorly

More Than Just Dander

First, a sort of meta-comment in the form of a shout-out to HCRenewal's intrepid editor, Dr. Roy Poses, for his just-published analysis of what we might call "blogging: rise and fall." He sees decline reflected in publications long  devoted to health and health policy, yet now flaking off.

Methinks, however, despite the usefulness of his overview of recent decades, Dr. P need not fret

Experts declare physician burnout ‘a public health crisis’ - and health IT a significant pathogen

I'm certain when the information technology hyperenthusiasts and
non-clinical management information systems "experts" and pundits get the technology
all figured out, this burnout crisis will end.




It will be about the same
time as Zefram Cochrane invents the warp drive in Bozeman, Montana just
prior to first contact by the Vulcans. That is in 2063 or so.



Experts declare physician

Return of the Anechoic Effect - Rest in Peace, Health Wonk Review

Introduction: Blogging About Taboo Topics in Health Care

We started Health Care Renewal in 2004 to discuss the causes of health care dysfunction that rarely were mentioned in polite conversation at the time.  When we started Health Care Renewal, such issues as suppression and
manipulation of research, and health care professionals' conflicts of interests rarely appeared in the media or in

The Mysteries Surrounding Rhodes Pharmaceuticals, the Sackler Family's Second Opioid Company

 Mysteries still abound in the not so wonderful world of health care dysfunction, so, quick, the game's afoot...

Today's mysteries involve beneficial ownership.  Beneficial ownership questions are important to anti-corruption campaigners.  Beneficial ownership simply refers to "anyone who enjoys the benefits of ownership of a security or property, without being on the record as being the

For the Years of Investigation to Come: a Guide to Resources for Challenging Health Care Corruption

The Enduring Problem of Health Care Corruption

Now arrives the years of investigation.  Here in the US, a new majority in the US House of Representatives promises multi-pronged investigations of, among other topics, the corruption that now seems pervasive at the highest reaches of the US government, corruption that has badly affected efforts to truly reform US health care (look here).