The dust-up involving Dr. Charles Nemeroff and Dr. Thomas Insell, director of NIMH shines a light on NIH leaders whose failure to enforce federal disclosure requirements is brushed off with excuses so untenable they have the ring of theater of the absurd.
“The age of American children being medicated with prescription psychiatric drugs is getting younger and more widespread every year.”
On March 22, 2010 the FDA recommended suspension in the use of GlaxoSMithKline’s Rotarix vaccine–to prevent rotavirus (diarrhea)–due to contamination with pig virus. Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the U.S , has already been given to about 1 million U.S. children along with 30 million worldwide.
"500 people would need to be treated with Crestor for a year to avoid one usually survivable heart attack. Stroke numbers were similar…At $3.50 a pill, the cost of prescribing Crestor to 500 people for a year would be $638,000 to prevent one heart attack."
One has to wonder why discovery of defective cars are front page news while defective FDA-approved prescription drugs are accepted as part of life’s risk.
Even worse, FDA officials, in collusion and collaboration with GSK, approved an unethical and exploitative clinical trial—TIDE, which is on-going.
Given multiple prior investigations of Dr. Wakefied’s 1998 paper, why did it take the Lancet editors 12 years to discover a lack of proper IRB approval?
A front page article in The New York Times raises the long-overdue alarms about the forced drugging of American children–in particular poor children who are condemned to ingest toxic neuroleptics (a.k.a. ‘atypical antipsychotics) at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. These drugs qualify under…
One after another of the recently proclaimed Flu “pandemics” has turned out to be a fraudulent marketing hoax to promote flu vaccines.
Vaccines against cervical cancer and shingles “don’t fit into the whole public health spirit of outbreak prevention.”
"How can they call this America, the land of the free?" she asked. "Where are my parental rights?"
What possible risk/ benefit standard can justify giving an inadequately studied vaccine whose risks include serious, permanent adverse effects–including death– to millions of girls and women–who will likely never get cervical cancer?
