Diabetes expert accuses drug company of “intimidation”

FDA to review "missing" drug company documents.

Examining the problem of witness intimidation

it ness intimidation — that is, threats made by defendants to discourage victims or eyewitnesses of crime from reporting or testifying—has only recently been recognized as a prevalent problem. Cases of witness intimidation brought to the public eye by the media typically are sensational and highly unusual, involving witnesses who testified against members of organized crime. Recent studies, how...

Intimidation of researchers by special-interest groups.

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Expert Opinion in Drug Discovery

Tweeting the Drug War: Empowerment, Intimidation, and Regulation in Social Media

In this paper, we describe how people living in armedconflict environments use social media as a participatory news platform. We investigate this by analyzing the microblogging practices of people living amid the Mexican Drug War. This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the phenomenon by mixing quantitative observations, content analysis, interviews, and case studies. We characterize the ...