“Allegations that WHO created a ‘fake’ pandemic to bring economic benefit to industry are scientifically wrong and historically incorrect.”

The World Health Organization responds to allegations it has created a ‘fake’ H1N1 pandemic to make money for drug companies.

“What’s a few years here and there when you’re talking about a dinosaur that’s 70 million years old? The science could wait. It’s more important to do things properly and make sure the proper owner was identified.”

Peter Larson, of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, comments on recieivng a fossil raptor which has been sitting in an evidence locker for years after being stolen in Montana (Canadian Press).

“He made a decision between terminating the relationship with Glaxo and terminating his relationship with the Brigham, to do the latter.”

Christopher Clark, director of Partners HealthCare hospital network’s Office for Interactions with Industry, comments on physician Lawrence M. DuBuske, who has resigned from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (and therefore Harvard) instead of giving up his paid speaking arrangements with pharma companies (Boston Globe).