New & Noteworthy, From Slave Traders to the Savoy Hotel
May 25, 2021
Recent titles of interest:
THE LEDGER AND THE CHAIN: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America, by Joshua D. Rothman. (Basic, $35.) Accounts of American slavery often overlook the central role of the traders who profited. Rothman’s history focuses on three of the biggest.
LIZZIE & DANTE, by Mary Bly. (Dial, $27.) Bly known to historical romance fans by her pen name, Eloisa James here delivers a contemporary novel about a Shakespeare scholar facing a dire medical prognosis, who travels to the Tuscan island of Elba and meets an Italian chef with a 12-year-old daughter.
Study Coordinator Charged in Scheme to Falsify Clinical Trial Data Details Written by Justice Department
Miami, Florida - A federal grand jury in Miami, Florida, returned an indictment Tuesday charging a Florida woman with conspiring to falsify clinical trial data regarding an asthma medication.
According to court documents, Jessica Palacio, 34, of Miami, worked as a study coordinator at a clinical trial firm in Miami called Unlimited Medical Research. Unlimited Medical Research was one of many companies hired to conduct a clinical trial designed to investigate the safety and efficacy of an asthma medication in children. The indictment alleges that Palacio participated in a scheme to falsify medical records to make it appear as though pediatric subjects made scheduled visits to Unlimited Medical Research, received physical exams from a clinical investigator, and took study drugs as required, when in fact these things had not occurred. The indictment
Worker Voice
Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect) “Unions have been having a rough time even in large workplaces, as their recent defeat at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, makes depressingly clear. What recourse is there, then, for those workers whom the law, the logic of large-scale organizing, and the attention of society all ignore?”
Amanda Kludt, Eater) “If we, as a society, as an economy, as an industry, are in such a rush to reopen, then why are we not vaccinating these workers first and foremost”? Many restaurant workers earn less than minimum wage. As these essential workers are being asked to do “much more for so much less,” how many of them will vote with their feet, and what would make them stay?