ASCI 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Andrew Wakefield, Apotex, Thalassemia
3 Feb 2017
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Understand the social forces that shape inquiry. Motivated cognition: we have vested interests in believing certain things. Selective gathering of evidence (asking the right questions) Subject contradicting information to harsher scrutiny: we will focus the things that make our arguments to show the best match to our view points. Policy-relevant science: ideal: (cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) pro(cid:272)ess is (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged to help other"s ideology. Doubt is their product, if people create doubt they could make money off it this. The nancy olivieri case: he (cid:449)as a si(cid:272)k kids resear(cid:272)her i(cid:374) the late 90"s, studying drug effectiveness against thalassaemia, funded by drugs company, then her research found out this drug was not working at all. Apotex attempted to suppress her results, including legal action and. Instructed by ethics board to notify patients ending funding (+allegations or worse, smear campaign) Accuse of sexual and not appropriated content and that was fake.
