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Who Manages Unitaid? Context Behind the Lawrie-Hill conversation

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Who Manages Unitaid? Context Behind the Lawrie-Hill conversation The Chloroquine Wars Part CIV Mathew Crawford " Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome. " -Charlie Munger Apologies for the substantial background behind this article up front. The payoff is large. Like  mega-Nicki Minaj large . Earlier this month,  an article  by  author  and medical and science correspondent  Neville Hodgkinson  circulated and created a buzz.  The article leads with brief discussions of the endemic fraud and corruption in the biomedical sciences , A leading UK cancer specialist told me years ago how he was blackmailed by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund into staying silent over a fraudulent study the fund had sponsored. Published in the Lancet, the study purported to show that patients treated holistically through the  Bristol Cancer Help Centre  did worse than those who had only orthodox treatment. It was junk science, aimed at discrediting the charity whose work had gained pr