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Three years later, Dean Ebert appeared before an FDA Advisory panel which was holding a hearing on Squibb's Mysteclin-F, a drug which had been severely criticized by a National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council panel of thirty specialists on infections diseases. Critics argued that prescription of Mysteclin-F's fixed combination of several antibiotics was irrational since it tended to give the patient too much or too little of each of the antibiotics, rather than the precise dosage needed...
...Squibb needed big names to defend the embattled Mysteclin-F, and it called on two of the biggest names in academic medicine, both on the Squibb payroll: Dean Ebert (a Squibb consultant), and Dean Lewis Thomas of the Yale Medical School a member of the Squibb Board of Directors...
Dean Ebert delivered the Squibb defense brief. He cited "additional evidence" compiled by physicians at the Roswell Park Memorial Cancer Institute in Buffalo. N.Y. which suggested that Mysteclin-F had some therapeutic value in the treatment of certain types of infections. Ebert suggested that the drug be labelled to indicate these specific usages...
...Thanksgiving Day the story of Dean Ebert's Mysteclin-F testimony and the history of his relationship with Squibb broke into the press. Morton Mintz of the Washington Post described the hearings in detail. Mintz reported that the FDA panel turned down Ebert's labelling proposal in executive session. "I don't think they showed efficacy," one scientist said, expressing the unanimous sentiment on the panel against the drug. "The deans' data were marginal at best," said another panel member...
...November 28, several Medical School students began circulating a petition calling on Ebert to "adhere to the spirit of the promise he made in 1969 and sever all his connections with Squibb." The petition has thus far gathered only a score of signatures from medical school students, but several medical school faculty members have expressed concern over the propriety of Ebert's testimony, and over the circumstances of his continuing affiliation with Squibb. "I am very disappointed," Jonathan Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, said last week. "It sounds like Ebert is doing what he said he wasn...