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Three prominent US scientists have been pushed to resign

Makes you wonder who can you trust when it comes to medical studies.  Surprise surprise,  the researcher received millions of dollars from pharmaceutical and medical companies!

Three prominent US scientists have been pushed to resign over the past 10 days after damning revelations about their methods, a sign of greater vigilance and decreasing tolerance for misconduct within the research community.

The most spectacular fall concerned Jose Baselga, chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He authored hundreds of articles on cancer research.

Investigative journalism group ProPublica and The New York Times revealed on September 8 that Baselga failed to disclose in dozens of research articles that he had received millions of dollars from pharmaceutical and medical companies.

Such declarations are generally required by scientific journals.

Links between a doctor leading a clinical trial and manufacturers of drugs or medical equipment used in the study can influence the methodology and ultimately the results.

Full story is here.

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A day at Antiques Roadshow

We won tickets to Antiques Roadshow held at Rosecliff mansion in Newport RI.  Great to take a day off for work for this!

One of the items we brought is a clock my grandfather made.  Turns out the clocks appraiser had met my grandfather earlier in his career.  He remembered his name from a Worcester Telegram and Gazette article I had brought that included a picture of my Pépé.  Clock is worth about $100 but is priceless.

That’s either appraiser Leigh or Leslie Keno, I cannot tell the twins apart!

There are surfers in the distance riding the waves from Hurricane Jose (sorry, I was expecting rain so I did not bring my Fuji camera with zoom).

 

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Bees are in the Hive

Lise’s bee’s arrived this past Friday.  We picked them up and put them in the garage for the night.

Saturday was the day to add them into their new hive.

That’s a lot of bees, 3lbs worth, or about ??? bees

The yellow tab is where the queen is, sorry no pics of her.  She has a yellow marking on her for identification.

Lise enjoying the day:

We opened the shipping crate and shook the bees into their new hive.  There were still some in the crate, so we left it on the ground hoping they would vacate and enter the hive with the rest of them.  We came back a few hours later and there were three big clumps of bees, probably too cold for them with temps in the 40’s.  I had to cut the screening and push the rest of them out.  One bee got stuck on the inside of my pants leg, to get out he stung, Ouch!