Talk:Bernadine Healy

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No Mention of Her Attempts At Privatising/Patenting DNA?

Her conflicts (Signs of Life ISBN 0-395-73530-0) with James.D.Watson were legendary, so much so that eventually Watson resigned from the NIH on the grounds that she was attempting to acquire the patents on DNA.Twobells (talk) 17:43, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

9-11 Red Cross Response section

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Removed statement on Red Cross not responding to Pentagon crash (listed as a reason Healy received criticism), because although there were many other criticisms related to the American Red Cross and 9-11, this was not one of them. Sources: Washington Post archive

Portsmouth Daily Times (Google archive) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Riaglo (talk • contribs) 20:58, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Details on edit of section on WHI regarding decline of sales of HRT

The HRT (hormone replacement) drug market in the United States simultaneously dropped by $1 billion, twelve months after the study's results were publicized, as 60% fewer women stopped filling their HRT prescriptions.^{[citation needed]}

It appears the entire section on WHI has remained without citation for seven years! Along with that, the phrase "60% fewer women stopped..." is convoluted and implies what is probably the opposite of what the author intended - which we assume was 60% fewer women refilling their prescriptions. However, without a citation, it's unverified. This particular statistic is not vital to the point of the paragraph, so I'm deleting it, and adding a citation to support the claim that the market dropped by $1B and that this was a 50% drop. -Tzf (talk) 15:53, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Conspiracy re vaccines

"She suggested a government conspiracy against further research in a nationally televised CBS interview with Sharyl Attkisson" . The source given doesn't mention the word "conspiracy" and it's not clear to me that the interpretation of her words is exactly that. GraemeLeggett (talk) 07:28, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Agreed. I therefor changed the text to the following:

“In a nationally televised CBS interview with Sharyl Attkisson, she alleged that the government has avoided studying whether there are any susceptible population sub-groups in which vaccination may result in autism, because of a fear that if such a link were found between vaccines and autism, people would stop vaccinating.” JustinReilly (talk) 22:02, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]