Word: ebert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since we believe that the Ebert affair raises the question of just how "punctilious" this "sense of responsibility" has been among administrators and faculty, we would suggest that new attempts to define a more precise conflict-of-interest policy be initiated...
First, we think that Ebert owes the community a full report of his activities for Squibb since 1969. Some of his consulting tasks will doubtless portray him in a far better light than have the Mysteclin-F hearings, for he is widely known as a man with progressive views on medical issues. We also believe that Ebert ought to be less modest and disclose the amount of the retainer he has been receiving from Squibb...
...absence of such as accounting from Ebert, The Crimson must go on the available facts. The image of a Harvard dean going before a public board of inquiry to dissent from National Academy of Sciences National Research Council consumer-protection findings is somewhat unusual. It becomes questionable when we learn that the dean has been paid and sponsored by the very pharmaceutical company whose product he is defending. And if the apparent consensus of medical judgement on Mysteclin-F can be trusted, then Ebert's testimony before the FDA failed to damage the interests of medical consumers only because...
...view Ebert's Mysteclin-F testimony as an especially dubious exercise of a somewhat dubious consulting prerogative, and we believe that the Dean has traded on the prestige of the Medical School in an attempt to stave off an FDA ban of the drug. Dean Ebert should take his Harvard administrative post off the market by resigning his consulting position at Squibb...
...WOULD BE grossly unfair to focus criticism on Ebert without also commenting upon the consulting work undertaken by other Harvard administrators and faculty. Unfortunately, information on consulting ties is not a matter of public record, and is difficult to come by. In the most recent University statement on Conflict of Interest, voted in 1965 and amended in 1966, the Harvard Corporation expresses the hope that "the University will never find it necessary to require reporting or approval of consulting activities or other contractual arrangements. It (the University) relies instead on a punctilious sense of individual responsibility...