Harness capitalism to help the poor – Bill Gates

Microsoft founder Bill Gates pitched a new form of capitalism on Thursday that would help better serve the neglected poor  Read the rest of this entry »

The Getty Images Settlement Demand Letter: Reporting on the Extortion Letter Scheme

The Getty Images Settlement Demand Letter is a deliberate attempt by Getty Images to intimidate and bully recipients Read the rest of this entry »

More fakery and tomfoolery

In the comments following this article, I found this little quote, which says what I was trying to say a few days ago, but more concisely.

The root cause of the world economic collapse was a socioethical malaise rooted in greed. Now it appears that this wasn’t limited to the financial sector.

via Elsevier published 6 fake journals :The Scientist [7th May 2009].

Elsevier published 6 fake journals

And the hits just keep on coming …We talked a few days ago about the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, a peer reviewed medical journal that was not peer reviewed, not very medically authoritative and not much of a journal.

Today it got worse.

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Merck published fake journal

I gather the point was to produce marketing information referencing, as an authority, this so-called peer reviewed medical journal. It does make me question 2 things, though. Who inside Merck is in charge of corporate responsibility, and who in the regulatory agencies is watching out for false or misleading advertising?

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