DSM “Bible” Debunked by NIMH Directors
8 May (AHRP) - The myth of the DSM “Bible” is debunked: “at best, [the DSM is] a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The weakness is its lack of validity.” Dr. Thomas Insel, Director, NIMH. After more than a dozen years during which we have been (more…)
New Details Emerge Regarding Unethical Treatment of Premature Babies
10 May (AHRP) - Newly obtained documents from the oxygen experiment (SUPPORT) reveal far more extensive medical ethics violations than those specified in the March 7, 2013 letter by the Office of Human Research Protection to the University of Alabama. (more…)
India: Polio Vaccine Cripples 61,000 to Protect 2,500
8 May – Last week, the BBC reporter Mishal Husain interviewed World Health Organization’s (WHO) Polio Director Hamid Jafari, and Shahnaz Wazir Ali, the Pakistan’s special adviser on polio. During the interview, both promoted the continued inoculation of polio vaccines, despite strong evidence of vaccine injuries to thousands of healthy children. (more…)
Montana Man Wrongly Told He Had Terminal Brain Cancer Wins $60k
9 May (HELENA,MT) - A judge has ordered the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center to pay nearly $60,000 to a Winston man who was wrongly diagnosed with brain cancer and told he had just a few months to live. (more…)
Plagiarism: It’s Just An “Approach” to Writing Papers, Right?
6 May (RETRACTION WATCH - We’ve heard a lot of rationalizations for plagiarism on this beat — “I didn’t know I had to cite that text”; “That author said it better than I ever could”; etc. — but here’s a new one for the wall of shame. (more…)
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Today’s Children Receive 12x as Many Vaccinations than in 1940
23 Apr (NATURAL NEWS) - It is a fact that children today are far less able and free to develop their own natural immunity through proper nutrition and normal childhood development. This is due to the fact that the vast majority of them, at least in the industrialized world, are bombarded (more…)
Adding Up Diagnosis Errors
22 Apr (WALL STREET JOURNAL) - Mistakes diagnosing patients are the most common, costly and dangerous errors made by doctors in the U.S. and result in permanent injury or death for as many as 160,000 patients annually, a new study found. (more…)
FDA Response Slow, Secretive in Second Flawed Research Case
17 Apr (PROPUBLICA) - This week, Propublica reported [1] that the Food and Drug Administration left medicines on the market for years after discovering they were approved based on fraudulent studies by Cetero Research, which did testing for drug companies worldwide. (more…)
Six arrested in alleged kickback scheme at Sacred Heart Hospital
16 Apr (CHICAGO TRIBUNE - An elderly man was admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital on Chicago’s West Side in late February, intubated and sedated for more than a week and scheduled for an emergency tracheotomy even though it was medically unnecessary, federal prosecutors allege.) (more…)
FDA Hid Fraudulent Research; Kept Drugs On Market
15 Apr (PROPUBLICA) - On the morning of May 3, 2010, three agents of the Food and Drug Administration descended upon the Houston office of Cetero Research, a firm that conducted research for drug companies worldwide. Lead agent Patrick Stone, now retired from (more…)
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