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June 9
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One of our nation’s precepts for higher education is that we produce “truth seeking” research. Doesn’t the pharmacuticals paying a professor 1.6 mill undercut that? Let him go work for the companies, not lend credibility to the research by giving it university sanction.
Fred Flener, Retired at Northeastern Illinois University, at 10:50 am EDT on June 9, 2008
Bob,
If you read the article you will see that the $350,000 fine was for a violation that did not affect the victim at all. .
The purpose of this fine is like that of most other fines: To lend some teeth to the law and encourage others to obey the law. I suspect this will help, if only a little, in encouraging schools to notify their campus when a murder occurs. In addition, some administrative fines go back to fund enforcement activities.
As for the victim, I suspect that the $2.5 million dollars the family of the victim received was considered helpful.
George Lugg, at 12:30 pm EDT on June 9, 2008
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How does paying a fine to the federal bureaucracy benefit the victim or the victim’s famiily?
Bob, at 9:35 am EDT on June 9, 2008