April 9th, 2013
9 Apr (ATLANTA GA) – For more than a decade, Atlanta doctor James Murtagh MD and Kevin Kuritzky have promoted themselves as “courageous insiders” who blew the lid on corruption at Emory University School of Medicine. In 2008, private investigator Clark Baker began to investigate both. Based in part on their pattern of behavior and that of the US Government and pharmaceutical industry, Baker founded OMSJ to investigate corruption that local, state and federal law enforcement officials appeared to facilitate or ignore. (more…)
Academics, Military Rattled by OMSJ Acquittal
31 May - Two weeks ago, OMSJ defended US Army Sergeant TD, who was accused of having unlawfully exposed four women to HIV. Despite 1) multiple positive HIV+ test results, 2) four accusers, 3) an HIV expert’s opinion that the tests were unquestionable proof (more…)
NATURE Bends Over for Pharma-funded Activists
Last week, the journal Nature posted a story by Zoë Corbyn about the publication of this report by cancer researcher Peter Duesberg Ph.D., which refutes the HIV-AIDS link. But when gay political activists complained, assistant news editor Brian Owens changed the title and link. And when readers like Christian Fiala MD, Prof. Charles Geshekter Ph.D. and (more…)
Scientists’ Elusive Goal: Reproducing Study Results
Two years ago, a group of Boston researchers published a study describing how they had destroyed cancer tumors by targeting a protein called STK33. Scientists at biotechnology firm Amgen Inc. quickly pounced on the idea and assigned two dozen researchers to try to repeat the experiment with a goal of turning the findings into a drug. (more…)
Prosecutors Seek Credible HIV Experts
In three unrelated cases this year, prosecutors charged Daniel Rick, USAF Sergeant David Gutierrez and a US Marine with having unlawfully exposed sexual partners to HIV. If convicted, each faced potential life sentences. In each case, OMSJ reviewed the medical evidence and established that incompetent clinicians had misdiagnosed the alleged infections in each defendant. But when (more…)
Selling Drugs as Scholarly Opinion
Would you buy a home loan from a Countrywide loan rep? Would you invest your life savings with Bernie Madoff? Would you ask Casey Anthony to babysit your children? Probably not. (more…)
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Biologist Spared Jail for Fraud
MIT – An immunologist who pleaded guilty to grant fraud in court has avoided jail after several prominent scientists wrote letters begging for clemency on his behalf. His sentence of home detention, community service and financial restitution, finalized on 15 June, suggests that coming clean promptly can be a good strategy for those who have committed scientific misconduct. (more…)
Prominent Neurologist Deplores Use of Haldol
13 May|AHRP - The Alliance for Human Research Protection campaign against the overuse, misuse, and frankly abusive use of antipsychotic drugs now has the support of one of the most prominent neurologists in the US. (more…)
PBS Reports Drugging of Foster Care Kids
7 Jan | PBS - Antipsychotics are the top-selling class of drugs in the United States, with sales of $14.6 billion in 2009 alone. Their use in children and adolescents in the United States is increasingly prevalent (more…)
Disgraced Docs Push Drugs for Big Pharma
20 Oct – The Ohio medical board concluded that pain physician William D. Leak had performed “unnecessary” nerve tests on 20 patients and subjected some to “an excessive number of invasive procedures,” including injections of agents that destroy nerve tissue. Yet the finding, posted on the board’s public website, didn’t prevent Eli Lilly and Co. from using him (more…)
Professor Unearths NIH Roots
5 Oct – Wash DC – Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized for virologists who deliberately infected hundreds of men and women with syphilis and gonorrhea during Tuskegee-like experiments conducted in Guatemala between 1946-1948. (more…)
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