sujet: le nouveau livre de Jean-Jacques Bourque contre les campagnes anti-tabac.
C'est carrément enrageant de voir qu'un journaliste professionnel publierait un tel article (qui effectivement promeut le livre de M . Bourque) sans avoir fait une recherche approfondie sur les conflits d’intérêt qu’il pourrait avoir. Je n’ai pas le temps pour jouer au détective, mais comme étudiant en médecine, je sais qu’aucun médecin ne publierait un tel livre sans l’appui de l’industrie de tabac. En faisant une petite recherche, j’ai pu découvrir que M. Bourque est le fondateur d’une compagnie de consultation, Humagest Inc. La compagnie ne compte que deux autres employés et aucune information sur ses activités n’est trouvable à l’internet. Par contre, Who’s Who in Canadian Business nous dit que Patricia Cherie Pitcher travaille aussi à Humagest. Serait-ce une coïncidence que dans son livre The Drama of Leadership, il se trouve au moins deux exemple dans lesquels elle appui discrètement les compagnies de tabac? Je vous les inclus ci-dessous tout en vous implorant de faire faire une recherche exhaustive sur les liens de M. Bourque avec l’industrie de tabac.
Merci,
Nicholas Dubé
1) “What’s worse, we allow experts to dictate policy to us. For example, French historian Alain-Gérard Slama reminds us that we allow cancer researchers who have studied biochemistry and medicine to dictate public policy on smoking, and yet smoking bans raise deep philosophical issues involving subtle tradeoffs between Justice and Liberty, which cancer researcher know nothing about.” (p. 196)
2) Sous le titre « Truth and Consequences » et discutant la réaction de différents types de leaders à certaines situations; NB : les adjectifs entre parenthèses carrées sont originales et la note de fin de document 4 fait référence à un article de l’année 1994 dans La Presse.
"Another context and another subject :
"Tenchnocrat: And so, in conclusion, we have to ban smoking from the planet.
"A member of the audience: I was reading the other day in a medical journal that major depression and the propensity to cigarette smoking are highly correlated. These doctors were suggestion that we should be a bit careful with depressed people, because pushing them too hard to quit smoking may inadvertently push them into a major clinical depression.4
"Technocrat: The study was no doubt financed by the cigarette lobby [paranoid], and even if it’s true, that’s their problem [narcissistic]." (p.186)
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It is truly enraging to see that reputable reporters are effectively promoting Mr. Bourque’s book evidently without having conducted a thorough investigation into the conflicts of interest he may have. Although I don’t have time to play detective, as a medical student I know that no doctor would publish such a book without support from the tobacco industry. After a little research, I discovered that Mr. Bourque is the founder of the consulting firm, Humagest Inc.; however, I could find absolutely no information on the company’s activities. What I could find was that one of the company’s two other employee’s is Patricia Cherie Pitcher. Coincidentally, in her book, The Drama of Leadership, there are at least two instances in which she discretely supports the tobacco industry. I have included these quotations below and implore you to have an exhaustive research done on Mr. Bourque’s ties to the tobacco industry.
Thank you,
Nicholas Dubé
1)
“What’s worse, we allow experts to dictate policy to us. For example, French historian Alain-Gérard Slama reminds us that we allow cancer researchers who have studied biochemistry and medicine to dictate public policy on smoking, and yet smoking bans raise deep philosophical issues involving subtle tradeoffs between Justice and Liberty, which cancer researcher know nothing about.” (p. 196)
2) Under the heading « Truth and Consequences » discussing the reactions of different types of leaders to certain situations. NB : the adjectives in square brackets are original and the footnote 4 refers to a 1994 article in La Presse.
"Another context and another subject :
"Tenchnocrat: And so, in conclusion, we have to ban smoking from the planet.
"A member of the audience: I was reading the other day in a medical journal that major depression and the propensity to cigarette smoking are highly correlated. These doctors were suggestion that we should be a bit careful with depressed people, because pushing them too hard to quit smoking may inadvertently push them into a major clinical depression.4
"Technocrat: The study was no doubt financed by the cigarette lobby [paranoid], and even if it’s true, that’s their problem [narcissistic]." (p.186)
