In many ways, Shkreli was too small-time -- for this level of system wide corruption of science. The people at Lown might consider renaming it the "Kennedy Malfeasance" Award. . . as Martin's 15 minutes [ref. Andy Warhol] evaporated about seven years ago. Here's MedPage Today, on it all, though:
. . .Lown Institute president Vikas Saini, MD, told MedPage Today the purpose of the awards is to call out "systemic problems" in which healthcare organizations and clinicians "chase money and greed to the point where they cut corners. . . with devastating results to patient care. . . ."
Kennedy, Jr. garnered the lion's share of judges' votes for his baseless claims about causes of autism that have baffled the public and angered medical experts.
"Citing studies that showed correlation but no causal evidence, and despite clinicians, toxicologists, and major medical organizations having looked at the research and rejected the claim, he asserted a link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism," the Lown judges said.
Kennedy then suggested infants undergoing circumcision have higher rates of autism because they likely received acetaminophen for pain, yet his evidence was an unreviewed and unpublished preprint, judges said.
"While this spectacle of erratic scientific leadership around autism is supposedly tied to Making America Healthy Again, many are now asking not what Kennedy can do for his country, but how his country can undo what he has already done," the judges wrote. . . .
[He] may be asking reasonable questions, like what is causing autism. The problem is that he then "makes brash announcements ... and trumpets them like the Second Coming, saying, 'We're going to just fix all this,' which is playing fast and loose with the facts, and really undermines confidence in decision making and leadership."
Onward, resolutely -- what a. . . feckless putz.
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