Professors at the University of Illinois-Chicago and Boston University are the targets of a $240 million lawsuit filed by means of two osteopathic doctors who say the professors engaged in a "purposeful campaign of disparagement" that pain their business prospects.Professors at the University of Illinois-Chicago and Boston University are the targets of a $240 million lawsuit filed by means of two osteopathic doctors who say the professors engaged in a "purposeful campaign of disparagement" that pain their business prospects. The plaintiffs, Robert Goldman and Ronald Klatz, are the caster s of both the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, a form into groups that develops treatments designed to "retard and optimize the human aging process" and Medical exhibition Management, a corporation that barters anti-aging products. The defendants, s Jay Olshansky of UIC and Thomas Peris of BU have publicly criticized Goldman and Klatz for making claims they say are not supported by dint of scientific research. At a March 2004 interview in Australia, Olshansky and a committee of other scientists awarded to Goldman and Klatz, in absentia, a "Silver Fleece" award for creating "the crops with the most ridiculous, outrageous, scientifically unsupported or exaggerated assertions about intervening in aging or agerelated diseases." In giving the award, the scientists characterized the production an anti-aging "nutraceutical," as expensive and useless, and criticized the anti-aging academy for producing ajournai which, the scientists said, confers a false impression of scientific authenticity to anti-aging products The lawsuit claims that the professors, who have the one and the other conducted aging research, levied their criticisms not as part of a "bona fide effort to advance public debate," however instead to advance their concede business interests. The professors disagree, as do their universities, which are covering the take away from of their defense. "Professor Olshansky is doing his piece of work to search for the fact and speak it. That's the design of a research university," says Bill Burton, a UIC spokesperson -GB Copyright American Association of University Professors Sep/Oct 2005 |
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