Negative Research Results–Mostly Concealed in Journals_SharonBegley, WSJ
"Why are scientists coy about publishing negative data?
"Why are scientists coy about publishing negative data?
FDA's slip-shod approval of defective, harmful drugs, accompanied by rubber stampped endorsements by compromised FDA advisory committees may be reaching a boiling point.
The banner headline news story in today's New York Post (below) reports that New York City's "Department of Education has turned thousands of public school students into "guinea pigs" –allowing researchers to use kids in lucrative and racially explosive studies, critics charge."
Steven Fiorello, former Chief Pharmacist for the State of Pennsylvania, was arraigned on on Tuesday, November 21, 2006, on Felony and Misdemeanor charges related to his accepting money from drug companies whose drugs he put on the state Formulary.
"The amount of legal stimulants used as medication and produced in our country has grown 2,000 percent in the last 15 years."
Presentation by Vera Sharav. NARPA Conference, Baltimore, MD. Nov. 17, 2006. PowerPoint slides (2.8 MB file).
We urge you to Vote — http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=2640591&page=1 We need a letter writing campaign to stop the mad doctors from stunting infants' development The psychiatrists among you, please raise your voice –Help! Latest Vote Tally (Sunday. 8:00AM: "Absolutely NO'–5,450; No, babies can't be depressed—612; OK if doctors says so—124. TOTAL VOTE: 6,186
Dr. E. Jane Costello, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University, acknowledges: “The system of diagnosis is still 200 to 300 years behind other branches of medicine.” Psychiatry also fails to be guided by an evidence-based positive benefit / risk assessment of its prescribed treatments.
The ethics of this radical drug experiment is being challenged by Dr. Jerald Block, a forthright psychiatrist and experienced system's analyst. His critical appraisal, published in the Bioethics Forum, Hastings Center Report.
Disease mongering: " This program has been developed for people who, while in the prime of their lives, are at high risk for developing a debilitating mental illness."
The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman by Dr. Peter Rost, published by Soft Skull Press.