August 2016 Archive

Nazi Victims’ Newly Identified Brain Parts Uncovered at Max Planck Research Institute

August 31, 2016 |

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 . . . Continue reading →

A Bug in fMRI Software Could Invalidate 15 Years of Brain Research

August 30, 2016 |

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 . . . Continue reading →

UK Tribunal Orders Disclosure of Clinical Trial Data

August 17, 2016 |

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 . . . Continue reading →

Drugging Our Kids, The Mercury News

August 11, 2016 |

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 . . . Continue reading →

N.I.H. Seeks OK to Fund Human-Animal Stem Cell Experiments

August 5, 2016 |

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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