A large scale malaria vaccine “pilot study” led by the World Health Organization is being conducted in Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya. The definition of a pilot study: “A pilot study is defined as “A small-scale test of the methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale” (Porta, Dictionary…
A congressional hearing was held on October 16, 2019, to examine the allegations by two whistleblowers — Martina Buck, Ph.D., a UCSD and VA research scientist and her husband, Mario Chojkier, M.D., UCSD professor of medicine and a liver specialist at the VA Medical Center — that veterans at the…
It appears that vaccine manufacturers are ever more impatient to reap high profits from new vaccines — especially since they have entered into “public-private” partnerships with governments. Increasingly, government officials oblige this greed-infected industry with laws mandating new vaccines. And public health authorities around the globe have become marketing auxiliaries…
“Comparative effectiveness research” (CER) was an acrimonious issue in 2009 during the heated debate about “Obamacare”. Its promoters describe CER as: “dedicated to improving decision making about health care. Real-world interventions in real-world settings, and comparisons of new interventions to the most widely used or promising alternatives, have become the…
Silencing honest doctors and scientists who identify harm-producing medical interventions that had been adopted on the basis of flawed research methods, has become a pervasive pattern in medicine; especially in public health where the government has an interest in promoting a treatment, an intervention, or practice guidelines. A recent example…
Sexual abuse of patients by psychiatrists is hardly rare. In 2016, Health Research Group of Public Citizen examined the literature and analyzed the National Practitioner Data Bank for Sexual Misconduct, 2003-2013. They reported that the literature shows that “psychiatrists typically account for a disproportionately high share of reported cases.” [PLoS…
Donald Klein, MD, one of the pillars of biological psychiatry who was instrumental in medicalizing the ebbs and flows of human moods, and of fostering psychiatry’s reliance on psychiatric drugs, is dead. The obituary in the New York Times notes that: “Klein’s research into panic attacks, depression, childhood anxiety disorders…
July 8, 2016: Swiss Public Television SRF uncovered evidence that “human rights were breached” in non-consensual drug tests conducted on patients at a psychiatric clinic in Herisau, Switzerland in the 1950s. The experimental drug Tofanil was tested in pre-marketing trials on behalf of its manufacturer Geigy. Medical documents reveal that…
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…
Historically institutionalized children and prisoners have been exploited and subjected against their free will, as human guinea pigs in all manner of medical experimentation. Researchers’ regard “Criminals in our penitentiaries are fine experimental material . . .
Today’s New York Times Magazine cover story, Planet of the Retired Chimpanzees By Charles Siebert, reports that chimpanzees who have served as subjects in biomedical research can look forward to being set free in one of 12 specially built chimp sanctuaries the prettiest places in all of Florida. This is…
In 1946, the World Medical Association (WMA) was formed by representatives of 32 national medical associations. In 1947, one month after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trial, the WMA held its first meeting, when it adopted a new physician’s oath, omitting injunctions against abortion and euthanasia. Almost from its inception,…
