BIG PHARMA’s CRIME SPREE
Rather than having a deterrent effect, the number of Big Pharma high profile criminal settlements is increasing and the settlements are getting bigger.
NAMI Acknowledges: 56% of Budget Comes from Drug Companies
In its response to Sen. Grassley’s probe, The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) acknowledges that a majority of its funds over the last five years, 56% on average, have come from drug corporations.
Nicotine Fix–Evidence of Collusion: Pharma-Govt Smoking Guidelines
"The federal government's campaign could discourage potential quitters who don't want to spend money on quitting aids or don't like the idea of treating their nicotine addiction with more nicotine."
Are we all going mad, or are the experts crazy? / Are psychiatric drugs an assault on the human condition?
Are we all going mad, or are the experts crazy? / Are psychiatric drugs an assault on the human condition? Fri, 19 Aug 2005 Below, two companion pieces: An Op Ed in the Los Angeles Times, by Stuart Kirk, a professor of social welfare at UCLA, addresses psychiatry’s conundum: the…
SSRI Prescription For Murder? Interrogation Methods Can Elicit Confessions From Innocent People
SSRI Prescription For Murder? CBS News 48 Hours / Interrogation Methods Can Elicit Confessions From Innocent People Sat, 16 Apr 2005 CBS News is broadcasting the Christopher Pittman story–the 16 year old who was tried for murder as an adult for a crime he committed as a 12 year old…
Protecting People w Mental Disabilities & Impairments against Biomedical Research Abuse
Protecting People with Mental Disabilities and Impairments against Biomedical Research Abuse[*] By John H. Noble, Jr., Ph.D, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA Vera Hassner Sharav, MLS, Alliance for Human Research Protection, New York, USA People with mental disabilities and impairments historically have been targeted by biomedical researchers…
Nuremberg Code
The Nuremberg Code [from Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10. Nuremberg, October 1946 – April 1949. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O, 1949 – 1953.]Â Permissible Medical Experiments The great weight of the evidence before us is to the effect that certain types…
Commonly recommended Treatments found Worthless
Commonly recommended Treatments found Worthless Wed, 19 Mar 2003 Independent analyses of the clinical studies upon which widely recommended drug treatments have been based, have now been found to be fatally faulty, and the drugs are deemed worthless. An analysis of 83 studies found that drugs used to treat 90,000…
Anthrax Vaccine Damage Done – London Times
Anthrax Vaccine Damage Done – London Times Tue, 26 Nov 2002 A riveting report in the London Times reveals more facts about the US anthrax vaccine debacle. The Times reports it “has looked at thousands of pages of government, FDA, Army, congressional and medical reports stretching back 30 years. The…
FDA Strong Drug Ties-Less Monitoring – UK MHRA
FDA Strong Drug Ties-Less Monitoring – UK MHRA Mon, 6 Dec 2004 A front page article in The New York Times provides a historical perspective to the shift in FDA’s focus (in 1992) from watchdog safeguarding the public against hazardous drugs, food and medical devices, to its current role as…
Lies & Broken Promises – Drug firm Websites Fail to Disclose Test Data
Lies & Broken Promises_Drug firm Websites Fail to Disclose Test Data Sun, 9 Jan 2005 One year after PhRMA’s publicized proclamation of its “commitment to transparency” The Boston Globe reviewed pharmaceutical company websites searching for disclosure of clinical trial data. The Globe found that this voluntary approach failed miserably: “Last…
Corporate Culture of Denial Results in Preventable Deaths
Corporate Culture of Denial Results in Preventable Deaths Fri, 7 Jan 2005 Failure to disclose the hazardous effects of Vioxx and Prozac are evidence of a corporate culture that has run amok. Uncovered company documents – some obtained through litigation, others unearthed by whistleblowers – reveal that the manufacturers knew…