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Báo cáo y học: "Advice and dissent"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Advice and dissent. | X Genome Biology Comment Advice and dissent Gregory A Petsko Address Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center Brandeis University Waltham MA 02454-9110 USA. Email petsko@brandeis.edu Former US President George W Bush was not a man given to irony. Yet asked where he got his information he replied The best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff. Sadly for the United States and for the world he was not being ironic - he actually believed what he said. The notion that people close to the king typically try to remain close to the king by telling the king what he wants to hear does not seem to have occurred to that remarkably unreflective man. Woe betide the courtier who troubles his or her monarch with unpleasant realities. Professor David Nutt must now understand this principle better than anyone. Until a few weeks ago he was the chairman of the UK s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs ACMD - an independent expert body that provides scientific advice to the British government on drug-related issues including recommendations on how to classify the dangers of cannabis marijuana ecstasy and other drugs of abuse. On 30 October 2009 David Nutt was summarily fired by the British Home Secretary Alan Johnson for giving the government advice and then criticizing it for not taking it. That advice concerned the thorny issue of reclassification of cannabis in particular. Few subjects illustrate the divide between conservatives and liberals more starkly than drugs and cannabis is the drug that provokes the most heated debate. People may argue about whether all drugs should be legalized but they generally agree that heroin and cocaine are dangerous substances that can have severe psychotropic effects. Cannabis however is viewed so differently by liberals and conservatives that one s opinion on its harmful effects could serve as a shibboleth for distinguishing the two philosophies. Most liberals .