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Guinea Pig Kids Stir Furor: NYC Allows Racial Studies in Schools_NYPost

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."

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ABC News Poll: Should Babies Be Given Prozac?? Vote NO

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

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Psychiatry operates within a pre-Copernican framework of science

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.

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Recent developments in gene transfer research: risk and ethics

Recent developments in gene transfer research: risk and ethics Mon, 10 Jan 2005 An analysis by Dr. Jonathan Kimmelman, in the British Medical Journal provides an illuminating, clearly articulated discussion about the ethical dilemmas that challenge gene transfer experiments – essentially a kind of human genetic engineering involving somatic cells,…