Call for submissions

We are requesting submissions for editorials and op-eds about this issue (500-750 words, maximum). Please send all submissions to zyprexa-discuss at acm.jhu.edu, or create a new page in this wiki, and link to it from this one.

Ideas for possible op-ed topics include:

• The importance of the "prior restraint" doctrine in the First Amendment
• The effects of omniscient surveillance on whistleblowing
• The growing threat of soft censorship, and the incongruity between outrage at overt oppressive censorship and the complacency for the form it takes in a modern liberal democracy.
• The relationship between anonymity and freedom of speech
• Critiques of the psychiatric medical model of mental illness
• A call for pharmaceutical companies to pledge the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath, so they are answerable to something other than the bottom line.
• Advocating for a pro-choice position towards psychopharmaceuticals, not the paternalistic, Big Daddy Pharma (and Mama Lilly) knows best
• The dangers of sales people hawking dangerous, psychiatric medication to general internists, even if its on-label
• The slippery slope of zyprexa prescriptions and usage
• The rationale behind FDA regulations and reviews of pharmaceutical marketing strategies.
• The dangers of off-label marketing of drugs
• Corporate responsibility and culpable negligence
• The abuse of Medicare by predatory pricing practices

I am considering making an editorial submission. However, it will probably be longer than 750 words. Why restrict space on a wiki? (I'm also testing my ability to contribute anonymously via Tor.)

My topic: How the efforts by the admins of this Wiki and mindfreedom are actually working in favor of the bad guys.

Please contribute. This is an open space for transparent conversation and debate. We are restricting the size of the contributions to the editorial section to conform to the standard length of a printed editorial submission. There a is virtue in adhering to the constraints of a particular genre.

We can certainly accept longer submissions, but they will go into another section of this wiki - perhaps "Opinion Peices" or "Essays".