Payments by industry to celebrity medical practitioners - some Parliamentarians think this is a big deal.

TV doc advice? Time to switch off the set.

TTE readers will recall how the friendly, fresh-faced medical practitioners advised you to do this and that from a TV while you were comfortably ensconced in your sitting rooms.

Except these fresh-faced colleagues had forgotten to tell folks they were being paid. So you were probably watching a covert advert for pharma and their great friend HMG.

Payments by industry to celebrity medical practitioners

We thought this behaviour was scandalous because of the money, the deception, and the absence of evidence for many of the gut-rot suggestions put forward.

At the twilight of the current British parliament, two politicians, one from the lower house and one from the upper house, thought this was scandalous, too.

These folks are Graham Stringer MP and Lord Strathcarron, co-chairs of the then All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pandemic Response and Recovery.

It is worth reading the short letter in full, but perhaps the punchline is this sentence:

“The failures of disclosure which have recently come to light will have done nothing to enhance public confid…