Dr. Aubrey Blumsohn is a kind and sincere human being, and is someone I am proud to call my friend, and author of the great blog Scientific Misconduct. Read Dr.Blumsohn's recent post HERE.
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Published 15 December 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b5293
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b5293
Feature
Interview
Aubrey Blumsohn: Academic who took on industry
"Aubrey Blumsohn forfeited his job after going public with concerns about access to Procter and Gamble’s research data on the osteoporosis drug risedronate. Clare Dyer talks to him about his experience."
"Scientists since Galileo have realised you can’t be a scientist without data," observes Aubrey Blumsohn. It seems a statement of the obvious, but he welcomes the General Medical Council’s recognition in the case of Richard Eastell, the former colleague whom he reported to the GMC, that "data" mean raw data, not summary data produced by a drug company’s in-house statistician.1 2
That recognition, he believes, vindicates the stand he took when he fought US based Procter and Gamble (P&G) Pharmaceuticals, which refused him access to the raw data for research Professor Eastell and he were leading on the company’s osteoporosis drug risedronate between 2002 and 2005.
His determination eventually forced the company to release the data in 2006, but it cost him his job as senior lecturer in metabolic bone medicine at Sheffield University and led him to abandon his career as a clinical researcher. "
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Dr. Blumsohn is a personal hero of mine, someone who leads the way in setting an example of never giving up.
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Via PharmaGossip, who titles Aubrey as "PharmaGossip's "Person of the Year 2009"!--I agree!
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