HIMS lawsuits

[AreWeThereYet]

Is anyone aware of any lawsuits, ongoing or past, against the HIMS program?

I am aware of one by a United pilot for forcing people to attend AA on the basis that it is a religious program that violates his religious beliefs. I am referring more to people being wrongly being denied a medical and forced into a Special Issuance to keep flying rather than challenging a specific aspect of of the HIMS program like AA.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

I read the extended abstract on the Cochrane site; my organization doesn't have a subscription that will unlock the raw data behind the paywall.

It is available at sci-hub. Good site to know about.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1002/14651858.CD012880.pub2

Also, there is an email link you can click at the publishers site for the corresponding author. If you politely request an article from an academic, they will almost always send you a pdf copy.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

The reminder to email the corresponding author and ask for a copy is a good one! I think I still have, in the attic, boxes of reprints from olden times when you wrote to the author and asked to be sent a paper reprint. Apparently I never got as many requests as I thought I would.

Another solution that often works, but does not in this case, is to type the full title into Google scholar. That will often produce a link to the article itself on the author’s website or elsewhere.

I also had those boxes, but I think I got rid of my boxes of those when last moving the office.

I didn't check Sci-Hub. It's pirated content. I do think the for-profit journals have priced themselves out of any reasonable market, but I don't think ignoring the copyrights and putting it all on a server in Kazakstan is the right solution.

The question of the best market model and how to respect property rights in the case of research funded primarily by tax dollars is an interesting one. “Spin Zone” material though I think.