User talk:Bluerasberry/selling sickness movement

Conflict of interest
I started this article and I have a conflict of interest in developing it. My employer, Consumer Reports, has sponsored some Selling Sickness events and some of the patient advocates who participate in this movement and other conferences related to unnecessary health care. One example of the kind of promotion which Consumer Reports does may be found at I have been unable to quickly find much more which Consumer Reports has ever said about this. Consumer Reports funds an advocacy division called the Safe Patient Project and they have said things about Selling Sickness in various places. I have no official or authoritative statements to share on behalf of the organization and write now I am sharing what I found with my own research.

Consumer Reports generally supports all kinds of people who claim to have experienced problems due to unsafe products, and in the case of this campaign, many people are claiming to have had problems with medicines due to pharmaceutical companies selling drugs without sufficient assurance that the drug is safe. This is a complicated issue and I am sure I do not know enough about it. I did my best to make this article because I met Kim Witczak and was curious to learn more about what she was doing. This is not a Consumer Reports project and Kim is not employed by Consumer Reports, but in the past Consumer Reports has supported what she does. If anyone has concerns about this article or my relationship as a Consumer Reports employee to it, then feel free to post here, email me, post on my talk page, or post to the conflict of interest noticeboard. Here is some information about the conflict of interest policy on Wikipedia. I would not call the subject of this article a "Consumer Reports product" and my organization has no ownership stake in it, but it is within a circle of advocacy interests. Related to this, I also started and developed Antidepressants and suicide risk based on information from the article on antidepressants. For some years I also have edited articles on medical safety, such as those in Template:Research participant rights, so in addition to an employer bias I also have my own lifetime of bias in this field. If anyone has ideas for what I can do to check my bias or improve this article then share.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   17:34, 22 November 2013 (UTC)