Comments on: Academic Freedom, and Things Just Got Really Weird Around Here

By: In Praise of Intellectualism, Or Notes on the Corpademy | Before You Take That Pill

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:06:38 +0000

[...] After all, everyone gets so fired up about “entrepreneurship” and so that they forget what they are there for in the first place, and when you bring a bunch of lawyers into the administration the “academic mission” gets pretty diluted. Sure, they have nice language about “free inquiry, and the exchange of ideas”, but they also have “policies” about not identifying what university you come from, which get applied in a lop-sided way to faculty who do more than mumble and ship off their boring research to, yep, “academic” journals, as recently happened to me. [...]

By: We Won! University Backtracks on Ban of Use of Name on This Blog! | Before You Take That Pill

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:19:53 +0000

[...] it’s true. After posting that my university had sent me a letter by courier telling me to take the name of my university off of my blog, there was mounting publicity about the situation, including stories by BNET Pharma, Schwitzer [...]

By: Joseph Arpaia

Joseph Arpaia — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:13:08 +0000

Wow. I found this from Danny Carlat’s blog. As a psychiatrist its good to know you are out there. I’ll put your blog in my favorites list. Nothing like censorship to increase your readership.

By: Emory, What’s New? « The Bitter Pill

Emory, What’s New? « The Bitter Pill — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:47:59 +0000

[...] Before You Take That Pill (Doug Bremner’s Blog), July 1, 2009: “Is there such a thing as aca… [...]

By: Doug Bremner

Doug Bremner — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:25:10 +0000

It’s worth a lot! I will re-post my Danish healthcare story from over a year ago next week.

By: Marian

Marian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:13:36 +0000

For what it’s worth: Nu også på dansk – now also in Danish.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:10:26 +0000

Hi, writing in from Calif, a friend posted your blog on facebook, and I’ve been reading up on this issue. I think you should put the Emory name back on the blog and tell them, I’ll see you in court! Of course, get an attorney ready! They don’t sound like a very ethical university. And now I’m interested in reading your book!

By: S Silverstein

S Silverstein — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:25:50 +0000

Doug,

If you are tenured, consider moving your entire blog to an Emory server and proudly display the Emory logo.

Part of academic discourse in 2009 includes new media, including blogging, which is simply a form of written communication that happens to be web accessible. Otherwise no difference than if you were writing opinion pieces that you as an academic emailed to, say, a listserv.

A major problem at Emory appears to be the technical backwardness of its leadership. You might remind them it’s not the 1970′s anymore, and TRS-80′s and Wang word processors are long obsolete.

By: Health Care. (united health care, universal health care) » Blog Archive » A Blogger That Dares Not Speak His University’s Name

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:30:40 +0000

[...] Bremner’s own comments in his blog are here. He concluded that Emory managers were “thinking more like a corporation than a university, [...]

By: D Feig

D Feig — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:16:26 +0000

As a alumni of the medical school, college, and school of public health, I will not give a freaking dime to Emory ever again. Every time they call to ask for money, I will specifically ask Sarah Goodwin to cite some specific examples from your blog about concerning behavior.

If getting busted for taking tons of pharm money isn’t concerning, than what is? Evidently only when you get caught by a US Senator.