Bullshit Articles
November 23rd, 2010
More sermonizing from Dr. Pious Dickhead.  Newsflash: Carl doesn’t like it when other people make money.  Evil Medicine! WalkerPercy WalkerPercy! There, we’re done – now you’ve read them all. Here they are anyway.
- How To Be An Academic Failure: A Guide for Beginners, The Ruminator Review, Winter 2000, pp. 15-16.
- “Logical Extreme: The Next Step in Reality Television” (with B. Elliott), The American Prospect (web), 2003
- “Mind Game,” The New Yorker, September 6, 2010.
- “The Mild Torture Economy”, London Review of Books, Vol. 32 No. 18. September 23, 2010.
- “Guinea Pigging,” The New Yorker, September 7, 2008.
- The Secret Lives of Big Pharma’s “Thought Leaders,” The Chronicle Review, Sept. 12, 2010
- “In Defense of Beta Blockers,” The Atlantic Unbound, August 22, 2008
- (with Roberto Abadie) Exploiting a Research Underclass in Phase 1 Clinical Trials (PDF), New England Journal of Medicine, 358;22, May 29, 2008.
- The Mixed Promise of Genetic Medicine (PDF), New England Journal of Medicine, med 356;20, May 17, 2007.
- How the APA Stole Christmas, Bioethics Forum, December 22, 2006.
- Paxil’s Ghost, Bioethics Forum, December 12, 2006.
- How Not to Deal With Pharma, Bioethics Forum, June 7, 2006.
- Nietzsche Wears an Earpiece, Bioethics Forum, May 15, 2006.
- (with Trudo Lemmens and Ezekiel Emmanuel) Debate: Should Society Allow Research Ethics Boards to Be Run As For-Profit Enterprises? PLoS Med 3(7): e309 DOI: 10.1371 /journal.pmed.0030309.
- “The Drug Pushers,” The Atlantic Monthly, April 2006.
- Soul of a New Machine (PDF), Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, (2005), 14, 379–384.
- (with Trudo Lemmens) Ethics for Sale Slate, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005.
- When Ethicists Have Conflicts of Interest (PDF), Dissent, Fall 2005.
- Should journals publish industry-funded bioethics articles? (PDF) The Lancet, July 7, 2005.
- Adventure! Comedy! Tragedy! Robots! How bioethicists learned to stop worrying and embrace their inner cyborgs (PDF), Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Volume II, Number 1 (2005).
- This is Your Country on Drugs, New York Times, December 14, 2004
- Pharma Goes to the Laundry: Public Relations and the Business of Medical Education (PDF), Hastings Center Report, September-October 2004.
- A World of Our Own Making: Medical Enhancement and the Pursuit of Happiness, Dissent, Summer 2004.
- Beyond Politics: Why have bioethicists focused on the President’s Council’s dismissals and ignored its remarkable work?, Slate, March 9, 2004.
- Six Problems with Pharma-Funded Bioethics (PDF), Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35, 2004.
- The Cellular Apocalypse (PDF), The Believer, December 2003.
- Not-So-Public Relations: How the drug industry is branding itself with bioethics, Slate, December 15, 2003.
- Humanity 2.0 (PDF), Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2003.
- Is Ugliness a Disease?, The Guardian, August 26, 2003.
- Life Sentence, The Australian, July 26, 2003.
- Costing an Arm and a Leg:
The victims of a growing mental disorder are obsessed with amputation, Slate, July 10, 2003 - American Bioscience Meets the American Dream, The American Prospect, vol. 14 no. 6, June 1, 2003.
- Medicate Your Dissent, Speakeasy, May/June, 2003.
- Magic Way to True Self, Times Higher Education Supplement, May 30, 2003.
- Pharma Buys a Conscience, The American Prospect vol. 12 no. 17, September 24, 2001 – October 8, 2001.
- Logical Extreme: The next step for “reality” television, The American Prospect Online, May 13, 2003.
- Adventures in the Gene Pool (PDF), Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2003.
- Attitudes, Souls and Persons: Children with Severe Neurological Impairment (PDF), Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 9: 16–20 (2003)
- (with Paul Brodwin) Identity and Genetic Ancestry Training, British Medical Journal, 2002;325:1469-1471 (21 December 2002).
- Diary, London Review of Books, Vol. 24 No. 23, 28 November 2002.
- Throwing a Bone to the Watchdog (PDF), Hastings Center Report, March-April 2001.
- A New Way to Be Mad? (PDF) The Atlantic Monthly 283:6, December 2000, pp. 72-84.
- Pursued by Happiness and Beaten Senseless: Prozac and The American Dream (PDF), Hastings Center Report, March-April 2000.