Professor Peter Gøtzsche, a leading researcher who heads the Nordic Cochrane Centre, the Scandinavian arm of the Collaboration, a center for independent researchers who analyze published medical research reports and freely disseminate their findings. It should be noted that as a doctor of internal medicine, his introduction into psychiatry’s barren…
Carl Elliott, MD, who has the moral gumption to stand up and speak out against “the toads and bullies who preside over academic medical centers” — including his own institution’s deplorable, but profitable human experiments in psychiatry — is especially revolted by the hucksters who call themselves bioethicists. In a…
Stakeholders in the Medical research enterprise, in the European Union and in the U.S., claim that clinical trials conducted on human subjects adhere to strict safety standards. “One of the things that sets clinical trials apart from other scientific experiments is the obligation for care. Investigators undertaking them have obligations…
On June 27, 2016, The New York Times reported that New York University medical school “quietly shut down eight studies at its prominent psychiatric research center” and dismissed Dr. Alexander Neumeister, the studies’ lead investigator was the director of the Molecular Imaging Program for Mood and Anxiety Disorders, and a…
The difficulty of identifying academic experts who have not crossed over to the commercially funded research was acknowledged by Dr. Marcia Angell, just before she relinquished her position as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine (“Is Academic Medicine for Sale?” 2000). It is now openly discussed by journal…
Congress must act to ban the use of Thimerosal in ALL vaccines. CDC documents reveal that CDC officials have known for years that the toxic effects of Thimerosal are causing autism which affects thousands of children. The documents were obtained Brian Hooker, PhD a scientist, an associate professor at Simpson…
I. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) For decades the norm in clinical practice was to prescribe hormone replacement therapy, a combination of estrogen plus progestin to menopausal women – despite the lack of scientific evidence of its safety and benefits. Science journalist, Barbara Seaman, founder of the Women’s Health Initiative, had examined the evidence…
We reprint below the most recent commentary by John Whitehead, a constitutional attorney and the founder of the Rutherford Institute, which is is committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all people. His commentary, is entitled, American Horror Story: The Shameful Truth About the…
A sensational investigative report by by Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion and Scott Glover in the Los Angeles Times (May 5, 2016) exposes the irresponsible, corrupt practices of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the company that manufactures and aggressively markets OxyContin at a dosing schedule that some doctors have described as “an addiction producing machine.”…
In an unprecedented decision, senior federal Judge Justin Quackenbush of Spokane, Washington ruled that a lawsuit may proceed against James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the psychologists who designed and implemented CIA’s post-9/11 torture program. The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of three plaintiffs…
In this story full of villains, Jean Maria Arrigo emerges from the authoritative Independent report by David Hoffman, as a hero – and a martyr. As a member of the APA ethics task force known as PENS, she had a ringside view of the machinations of the panel that was stacked with…
The case against Andrew Wakefield was funded by Murdoch; hatched by Brian Deer; launched in the Sunday Times; magnified by the BMJ Brian Deer is a freelance reporter who was paid by the Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times to “find something big about MMR.” His strategy of attack followed the Murdoch…
