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Scientific Secrecy and “Spin”: The Sad, Sleazy Saga of the Trials of Remune

Susan Haack

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Haack sketches an account of what science is and does that suggests how and why the ways in which scientific work is funded can distort or even block its progress. She puts her theory to work by analyzing the troubled history of the trials--clinical and legal--of Immune Response's AIDS drug, Remune.

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Haack sketches an account of what science is and does that suggests how and why the ways in which scientific work is funded can distort or even block its progress. She puts her theory to work by analyzing the troubled history of the trials--clinical and legal--of Immune Response's AIDS drug, Remune.

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Haack sketches an account of what science is and does that suggests how and why the ways in which scientific work is funded can distort or even block its progress. She puts her theory to work by analyzing the troubled history of the trials--clinical and legal--of Immune Response's AIDS drug, Remune.

Key concepts: Ethos, Drug Company, Secrecy, Political science, Intellectual property, Scientific enterprise, Law, Public relations

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