Posted on Aug 24, 2021
Major MED Journal: Slams “RUSHED” FDA approval of COVID vaccine…
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An interesting piece by the senior editor of the British Medical Journal, poured scorn on the FDA’s premature and fast-tracked approval of the Pfizer COVID vaccine. Full link here:
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/23/...
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/23/...
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OK, so what? It's his opinion, he's not a medical doctor (PhD in Pharm), and he has lobbied against the vaccines from the start. While in a prestigious medical journal, this isn't anywhere near a peer-reviewed study.
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SSG Robert Webster
And your point? He doesn't hide anything.
Since this actually does fall into his field of specialty, you do not have a point.
Peter Doshi
Peter Doshi is a senior editor at The BMJ and on the News & Views team. Based in Baltimore, he is also an associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. His research focuses on the drug approval process, how the risks and benefits of medical products are assessed and communicated, and improving the credibility and accuracy of evidence synthesis and biomedical publications. Doshi campaigns for greater transparency of clinical trial data and leads the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials (RIAT) initiative, which aims to ensure clinical trial publications are accurate, complete, and data are publicly available. Doshi also has strong interests in journalism as a vehicle for encouraging better practice and improving the research enterprise. Doshi completed a fellowship in comparative effectiveness research at Johns Hopkins and received his PhD in history, anthropology, and science, technology and society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Competing interests
© I have the following interests to declare:
Personal
Being academically involved in research on various topics of interest to The BMJ, I personally know many authors who submit papers to The BMJ. I try to minimise potential biases by being open and transparent about the potential conflict of interest, seeking advice of others as to the best way to address any potential conflict of interest, and recusing myself from working on certain papers. Being an academic researcher separate to my editorial role at BMJ, I may also submit papers to The BMJ as an author. For such papers, I work to ensure that I am not involved in decision making related to the editorial process.
(Past) Between 2011 and 2014 I was funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme for work on a Cochrane review of neuraminidase inhibitors (http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects/hta/108001). Works from this project have been published in The BMJ. The NIHR’s funding of this project ended around June 2014.
(Past) In 2012, I received €1500 from the European Respiratory Society in support of my travel to the society’s September 2012 annual congress in Vienna, where I gave an invited talk on oseltamivir.
(Past and ongoing) I have accepted necessary and reasonable paid-for travel, meals, daily subsistence costs, and accommodation from meeting organisers only when the organisation is a not-for-profit one. As of 2014, this includes the European Respiratory Society, Yale University (YODA), Institute of Medicine, and Drug Information Association.
(Past) In 2014, I received a $1000 honorarium, plus meals and hotel accommodation from Des Moines University for an invited lecture on access to clinical trial data.
(Past) Between 2015 and 2016, I received $5000 from Johns Hopkins University for my involvement in a PCORI funded research grant to compare data from multiple sources (ME-1303-5785; PI: K. Dickersin).
(Past) Between 2015-2019, I received £6305 for my involvement in a Cochrane Methods Innovation Fund grant to produce Interim guidance on the inclusion of clinical study reports and other regulatory documents in Cochrane Reviews.
(Past) In 2017, I received a $500 honorarium from the Office of Research Integrity (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services) for speaking on a panel on open science at the Quest conference.
(Past) During 2020, I wrote two affidavits (unpaid) for lawsuits in California and Massachusetts that argued against mandatory influenza vaccination for students.
Organisational
(Past) I received a 2015 New Investigator Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy which provides my university (University of Maryland) with $10,000 to fund a PhD student to work on research on how the potential harms of statins are conveyed in drug labeling and pharmacy leaflets. An additional $1000 supported two PhD students travel to the AACP Annual Meeting.
(Ongoing) Since 2014, I have been employed by the University of Maryland (https://faculty.rx.umaryland.edu/pdoshi/) and was previously employed by Johns Hopkins University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All three of these are large research universities that have numerous financial relationships with entities that may have an interest in what is published in The BMJ.
(Ongoing) Since 2017, I am the principal investigator of the RIAT Support Center, which received a $1.4 million grant from Arnold Ventures to improve the credibility of clinical trial publications. This funding is for five years and supports my salary at the University of Maryland.
Unpaid positions (current)
(Past) Between 2016 and 2020, I was an unpaid member of the IMEDS steering committee at the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, which focuses on drug safety.
*****IF only lawyers and attorneys had to make such declarations.*****
Since this actually does fall into his field of specialty, you do not have a point.
Peter Doshi
Peter Doshi is a senior editor at The BMJ and on the News & Views team. Based in Baltimore, he is also an associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. His research focuses on the drug approval process, how the risks and benefits of medical products are assessed and communicated, and improving the credibility and accuracy of evidence synthesis and biomedical publications. Doshi campaigns for greater transparency of clinical trial data and leads the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials (RIAT) initiative, which aims to ensure clinical trial publications are accurate, complete, and data are publicly available. Doshi also has strong interests in journalism as a vehicle for encouraging better practice and improving the research enterprise. Doshi completed a fellowship in comparative effectiveness research at Johns Hopkins and received his PhD in history, anthropology, and science, technology and society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Competing interests
© I have the following interests to declare:
Personal
Being academically involved in research on various topics of interest to The BMJ, I personally know many authors who submit papers to The BMJ. I try to minimise potential biases by being open and transparent about the potential conflict of interest, seeking advice of others as to the best way to address any potential conflict of interest, and recusing myself from working on certain papers. Being an academic researcher separate to my editorial role at BMJ, I may also submit papers to The BMJ as an author. For such papers, I work to ensure that I am not involved in decision making related to the editorial process.
(Past) Between 2011 and 2014 I was funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme for work on a Cochrane review of neuraminidase inhibitors (http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects/hta/108001). Works from this project have been published in The BMJ. The NIHR’s funding of this project ended around June 2014.
(Past) In 2012, I received €1500 from the European Respiratory Society in support of my travel to the society’s September 2012 annual congress in Vienna, where I gave an invited talk on oseltamivir.
(Past and ongoing) I have accepted necessary and reasonable paid-for travel, meals, daily subsistence costs, and accommodation from meeting organisers only when the organisation is a not-for-profit one. As of 2014, this includes the European Respiratory Society, Yale University (YODA), Institute of Medicine, and Drug Information Association.
(Past) In 2014, I received a $1000 honorarium, plus meals and hotel accommodation from Des Moines University for an invited lecture on access to clinical trial data.
(Past) Between 2015 and 2016, I received $5000 from Johns Hopkins University for my involvement in a PCORI funded research grant to compare data from multiple sources (ME-1303-5785; PI: K. Dickersin).
(Past) Between 2015-2019, I received £6305 for my involvement in a Cochrane Methods Innovation Fund grant to produce Interim guidance on the inclusion of clinical study reports and other regulatory documents in Cochrane Reviews.
(Past) In 2017, I received a $500 honorarium from the Office of Research Integrity (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services) for speaking on a panel on open science at the Quest conference.
(Past) During 2020, I wrote two affidavits (unpaid) for lawsuits in California and Massachusetts that argued against mandatory influenza vaccination for students.
Organisational
(Past) I received a 2015 New Investigator Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy which provides my university (University of Maryland) with $10,000 to fund a PhD student to work on research on how the potential harms of statins are conveyed in drug labeling and pharmacy leaflets. An additional $1000 supported two PhD students travel to the AACP Annual Meeting.
(Ongoing) Since 2014, I have been employed by the University of Maryland (https://faculty.rx.umaryland.edu/pdoshi/) and was previously employed by Johns Hopkins University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All three of these are large research universities that have numerous financial relationships with entities that may have an interest in what is published in The BMJ.
(Ongoing) Since 2017, I am the principal investigator of the RIAT Support Center, which received a $1.4 million grant from Arnold Ventures to improve the credibility of clinical trial publications. This funding is for five years and supports my salary at the University of Maryland.
Unpaid positions (current)
(Past) Between 2016 and 2020, I was an unpaid member of the IMEDS steering committee at the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, which focuses on drug safety.
*****IF only lawyers and attorneys had to make such declarations.*****
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Capt Gregory Prickett
SSG Robert Webster - Yeah, I read all of that before I posted my comment. Did you read it before you posted the OpEd?
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Hi! I’m Dr. Suneel Dhand, and I’m an internal medicine physician. I was born in London, grew up in Berkshire, England, and went to medical school at Cardiff University. I then hopped across the pond, doing my medical residency in Baltimore, Maryland. I’ve since worked up and down the east coast, in a number of different healthcare environments and settings. Along the way, I also started a popular healthcare blog and wrote 3 well-being books.
My main clinical interest and passion is lifestyle & preventive medicine. Please visit my YouTube channel, MedStoic Lifestyle Medicine, here.
I previously worked in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, and undertook an elective experience in Australia where I worked with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, flying on airborne missions to the Australian Outback.
I have been extensively involved in medical education and held faculty positions at two major Massachusetts medical schools as Clinical Assistant Professor. I have authored numerous articles in clinical medicine that have been published in leading medical journals, covering a wide range of specialty areas. I’ve also authored chapters in the “5-Minute Clinical Consult” medical textbook. My main area of interest, lifestyle and preventive medicine, led me to writing High Percentage Wellness Steps, and the historical fiction book, Thomas Jefferson: Lessons from a Secret Buddha.
I am the cofounder of DocsDox, and you can learn more about that company below. When I’m not working (I don’t work evenings and try to avoid weekends too), I enjoy running, working out, Lindy Hop swing dancing (yes, you read right), traveling the world, and getting back to London as often as possible…
https://suneeldhand.com/about-suneel/
Hi! I’m Dr. Suneel Dhand, and I’m an internal medicine physician. I was born in London, grew up in Berkshire, England, and went to medical school at Cardiff University. I then hopped across the pond, doing my medical residency in Baltimore, Maryland. I’ve since worked up and down the east coast, in a number of different healthcare environments and settings. Along the way, I also started a popular healthcare blog and wrote 3 well-being books.
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