Why I wrote POISON PILL

POISON PILL is a culmination of what I know. I’m a lawyer now, but in my former life, I was a research scientist – got my sleeves wet, hung out with mice, and ruined my back changing heavy rotors in a centrifuge. I wrote a few well-published and well-received papers, too (excuse the brag).

I had a front-row seat to how science is made, published, debated, and hyped. Like any human sphere, biomedical science is rife with egos, politics, financial pressures, and petty and grand jealousies. I wan...