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Pics and Videos from the Drug companies event are up on the website. As always, you can watch snippets of the video on YouTube as well.
In addition, check out my recap of a NY Times article on the pharma’s marketing tactics.

An attendee at the Drug Companies event alluded to an article in the NY Times regarding a psychiatrists experience working for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals marketing their drug Effexor. It is a fascinating read, describing a sympathetic doctor who compromises his professional integrity ever so slowly until he is too deep in the pockets of Wyeth. Rarely do ever see such a strong narrative from a scientist.
Quick synopsis – Daniel gets hired to give short talks to other doctors and present data on Effexor. He is subtly influenced to hide damaging …

My friend David just wrote a general story on science cafes for WIRED magazine. The piece outlines the science cafe movement, highlighting a few from around the country. However, our little science cafe takes the cake…the picture from the DtaS event on climate change. If you were at the event, you might be (more) famous now!
Check out the story on WIRED: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/science_cafe
Digg the article or post a comment…it’s a quick way to help publicize Down to a Science!