Ethics event spawns a tussle at Tufts

by E Wayne Ross on March 26, 2009

Boston Globe: Ethics event spawns a tussle at Tufts
Speaker is out; now organizer is, too

Tufts University has withdrawn an invitation for a top aide to US Senator Charles E. Grassley to give the keynote speech at a conference on conflicts of interest in medicine and research, leading one conference organizer to pull out and question the university’s commitment to academic freedom.