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True... but she's not a famous tenured professor, is she?
by rscho 5y ago
True... but she's not a famous tenured professor, is she?
- sarchertech 5y agoWhat does being a famous tenured professor have to do with the OP’s claim that doctors attending conferences were getting free gifts. I’m not talking about the separate claim that speakers get paid to speak.
- rscho 5y agoWell, that's precisely the crux of the matter. When I go to conferences, I also only get a measly ballpen with a notebook if I'm lucky. Corporate financing is mostly targeting established researchers who, crucially, hold influence over their peers. It's just like YouTube influencers. So the question is not what we get at the conference, but what arrangements are made for the funding of future projects for those researchers. And conferences are great locations for interfacing well-known researchers with industry representatives. That also happens elsewhere, of course.
- sarchertech 5y agoAgain this is a different thing than “doctors go to conferences and get free hotels and gifts”. If you think researchers (the majority of whom aren’t doctors) might make shady deals with industry reps at conferences, I don’t have any evidence they don’t I guess. I don’t have evidence that industry reps don’t just call them on the phone and offer bribes either.