Two NIMH Directors Debunk DSM & Deplore Psychiatry’s Unscientific Modus Operandi
The myth of the DSM “Bible” is debunked: “at best, [the DSM is] a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. . . .
University of Minnesota Stonewalling Psychiatrists’ Gross Medical Misconduct
I have just signed a petition urging Mark Dayton, Governor of Minnesota to appoint an independent, external panel of experts to conduct an investigation into gross medical research and clinical care misconduct by psychiatrists at the University of Minnesota. . . .
Can Medical Research be Trusted?
“Unfortunately, the entire evidence base has been perverted,” said Joseph Ross, a professor at Yale Medical School who has studied the issue.
Rising Painkiller Addiction Shows Damage From Drugmakers’ Role in Shaping Medical Opinion
“You could say these marketing tactics are merely concerning. But I think of them as satanic. What the data are telling us is that these drugs are ruining people’s lives,” said Phillip Prior, MD
America’s Healthcare Crisis–Part I “The Whole System is Broken”
Part I. America’s commercially profitable healthcare system is wasteful, inefficient and exceedingly harmful. Medical interventions are the third Leading cause of death.
FDA Scientists Collide with FDA Managers Re: Safety Issues
Since 1995 FDA scientists have been at odds against FDA managers who routinely override sientists’ safety concerns to approve dubious prescription drugs.
America’s Healthcare Crisis–Part IV-Vaccine Injury Compensation
Autism: Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) data.
Big Pharma’s Criminal / Civil Settlements
Big Pharma Criminal Rap Sheet & False Claims Settlements with DOJ and State Attorneys General: A continuing stream of record-setting billion $ settlements and fines are the tip of the iceberg.
J & J Suspends Prostate Cancer Drug Trial–Why?
The decision to suspend the trial is viewed as highly questionable, raising disturbing questions about the role that marketing played–especially in light of the fact that Zytiga’s patent is due to expire in 2017.
Harvard To Be Tried for Alzheimer’s Research Fraud
The US Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit overturned a summary judgement by a lower court ordering a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Dr. Kenneth Jones against Harvard Medical School, its teaching hospitals, Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Marilyn Albert (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Ronald Killiany to proceed to trial.
Who Is Not Fit To Practice Medicine?
At a minimum, the practice of responsible medicine requires that physicians who prescribe drugs whose known severe adverse side effects are likely to cause their patients irreversible harm, requires that those physicians follow monitoring guidelines to ensure their patients’ safety.
Fraudulent Science: What’s Retracted, What Is Not
Even as the corruption of science is no longer a dirty little secret, but is in plain sight, no one is doing anything tostop it. April 16, 2012 A Sharp Rise in Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform By CARL ZIMMER In the fall of 2010, Dr. Ferric C. Fang…