Archive for August 2016
Nazi Victims’ Newly Identified Brain Parts Uncovered at Max Planck Research Institute
August 31, 2016: The Times of Israel reports that brain parts used for research during, and after WWII by Nazi doctors — most likely by the premier neuroscientist, Professor Julius Hallervorden –have been newly uncovered at the Max Planck Institute — formerly the Kaiser Willhelm Society. In the 1980s, some 700 brain preparations were discovered…
Read MoreA Bug in fMRI Software Could Invalidate 15 Years of Brain Research
Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates, by Swedish neuroscientists Anders Eklund, Tom Nichols, and Hans Knutsson, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2016) reveals the discovery of a major flaw in the software used by neuroscientists in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. The software…
Read MoreUK Tribunal Orders Disclosure of Clinical Trial Data
A battle is in full swing between scientists demanding access to clinical trial data from published reports; journal gatekeepers protect the interests of sponsors — commercial companies, academic institutions and government agencies. In numerous legal procedures, the claimed clinical trial results in published scientific reports have been shown to be false, resulting in doctors prescribing…
Read MoreDrugging Our Kids, The Mercury News
Public health policies encourage the misuse of public funds for expensive, harm-producing psychotropic drugs. Government agencies are funding the abuse of America’s children in foster care who are subjected to assaultive prescription orders by psychiatrists. These drugs and prescribed combination of these drugs are seriously undermining children’s mental and physical health. A sensational 5-part series…
Read MoreHow I almost got charged $200 for an $8 prescription
Whereas government agencies in Canada, Australia European countries set limits on the cost of prescription drugs, in the United States, thanks to a laissez faire government pass, pharmaceutical companies are encouraged to set prescription drug prices however high they wish without any limits. This is an unsustainable public policy. (Read more at Health Affairs.org) An…
Read MoreN.I.H. Seeks OK to Fund Human-Animal Stem Cell Experiments
Beware the month of August – when Congress and many citizens are vacationing! Government bureaucrats favor August to issue announcements about radical medical research policy changes, for which taxpayer money is sought. They do so, to avoid public controversy about public funding of radical experimentation…
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