STAT February 12, 2024
Hello! Hope your team of choice was victorious in last night’s sports ball match. Today, we talk about psychedelics, obesity, and production issues with generic drugs. We also discuss the ongoing issues of scientific misconduct that are springing up left and right in academia, and how universities are scrambling to keep up.
The need-to-know this morning
- Pfizer ran a Super Bowl ad that celebrated its 175-year history and a commitment to finding new treatments for cancer. The soundtrack was Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now,” lip synced by animated portraits, sculptures and sepia-toned photos of Pfizer founders Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart, along with Rosalind Franklin, Sir Isaac Newton, Hippocrates, Rosalind Franklin, Albert Einstein, Katalin Karikó and others. Really good...