Good News: CDC employees send letter to lancet

[Jarod]

Might be a good opportunity to take sides with the CDC employees for a change. Might help remind the lancet how screwed up CFS research has been for so long.

Three anonymous letters detailing alleged problems at a global health division run by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provoked a rebuttal from CDC officials.

Allegations in the letters, excerpts of which were published in The Lancet within the last month and aimed at the CDCs 18-month-old Center for Global Health, range from general low morale amongst staffers at the center to misappropriation of funds and clashing with the US Agency for International Development programs. One of the three letters calls for an objective evaluation of the global health division, and the other two propose that a Congressional investigation be initiated.

The Lancet editor, Richard Horton, is defending the journals publication of the letters, saying they are exhortations from CDC staffers whose concerns were stifled by the agency. The letters, he wrote in one of the pieces that excerpts them, raise questions about leadership, management of resources, proper use of the CDCs authority and power, and the scientific rigor of CDC research.

http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/12/trouble-at-the-cdc/

 

[Snow Leopard]

Good news that they're speaking out, bad news that the organisation has long been mismanaged and is still in denial it seems.

 

[Enid]

Pity they don't give more space to genuine research findings in ME rather than prop up the psychos and now space for criticism of the CDC though good news - where were the letters over years (eg Prof Hooper) on the misrepresentation of ME in the UK. Unpublished - why.