Talk:Healthy Skepticism

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Re Notability: The following are the concluding sentences (not accessible online) of Accountability of the pharmaceutical industry Dukes MNG The Lancet - Vol. 360, Issue 9346, 23 November 2002, Pages 1682-1684

"...Medecins Sans Frontieres has committed itself strongly to action in this area, especially with respect to failure of the multinational industry to serve the needs of the developing world, either in terms of product development or pricing. (26,27) Another organisation, Health Action International (http://www.haiweb.org), has for a decade provided firm but thoughtful pressure on industry and governments and formulated well-deserved and constructive criticism of drug policy and practice. A small group known as Healthy Skepticism (http://www.healthyskepticism.org; formerly the Medical Lobby for Appropriate Marketing) has consistently and insistently drawn the attention of producers to promotional malpractice, calling for (and often securing) correction. These organisations are small, but they are capable; they bear malice towards no one, and they are inscrutably honest. If industry is indeed persuaded to face up to its social responsibilities in the coming years it may well be because of these associations and others like them."

At the time, Dukes was professor of pharmacotherapy at the University of Oslo and had recently retired after 25 years as editor of Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs and its associated annuals (major pharmacology textbook). RJ Clothier 02:39, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

On 11 June 2007 Healthy Skepticism's founder, Peter Mansfield, was honoured with a Medal of the Order of Australia for this work. The citation reads: "For service to medicine, particularly as an advocate for ethical pharmaceutical marketing practices and the quality use of medicines in Australia and in developing countries." http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1135023&search_type=simple&showInd=true RJ Clothier 01:54, 22 June 2007 (UTC)