Donald Morisky, now a professor emeritus in community health at UCLA. As the name implies, the measure allows researchers to assess patients’ adherence to drug

Donald Morisky, now a professor emeritus in community health at UCLA. As the name implies, the measure allows researchers to assess patients’ adherence to drug regimens. Morisky made a business out of licensing the scale and demanding steep fees for researchers who failed to obtain the proper permissions, as we reported in Science in 2017. Researchers who cannot afford the payments Morisky and his business associate demand have been forced to retract their work. What an asshole. I already think it's sketchy that instruments like the wAIS or other scales are monetized, but this scale has only 6-8 questions and the latest version was retracted after being challenged as no better than chance. Absolute garbage. Open source scales should be table stakes for open source science.