4-year old Rebecca Riley,a Casualty of Psychiatric “Treatment”_BostonGlobe_NYT
“To me one of the miracle of children’s brains is that we don’t see more harm from these treatments.”
“To me one of the miracle of children’s brains is that we don’t see more harm from these treatments.”
"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."
The lead story in The New York Times on Thanksgiving day (below) acknowledged several facts demonstrating that children are the victims of major medical malpractice:
"Why are scientists coy about publishing negative data?
Two surveys confirm medical researchers' resistance to complying with conflict of interest disclosure requirements.
Linguistic Tinkering with Regulatory Terminology Increases Risk of Harm for Children: "minimal risk" "minor increment of minimal risk" and "disorder or condition" January 28, 2001 A cornerstone of the Declaration of Helsinki (adopted by the World Medical Association in 1964, and reaffirmed on Oct. 2000) is the distinction between research…
Government Investigations 1990 to August 2001 National Bioethics Advisory Committee Report: ETHICAL AND POLICY ISSUES IN RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN PARTICIPANTS, 1998 Exhibit 3.1: Office of Protection from Research Risks (OPRR) Compliance Oversight Investigations Resulting in Restrictions/Actions to Institutions that have Multiple Project Asssurances (MPA) between January 1990 – June 2000…
Foster children AIDS Drug-Vaccine Experiments-Editorial – OpEd Sun, 22 May 2005 An editorial in the Toledo Blade, “Pediatric Shame,” expresses the moral indignation of the community upon learning that prestigious medical research Institutions nationwide exploited the vulnerability of children in foster care to test experimental AIDS drugs and vaccines: “in…
Bayh-Dole Act: The Law of Unintended Consequences – Fortune Sun, 25 Sep 2005 The author of this Infomail is Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D. Revisiting the Bayh-Dole Act (1980): Spawned Big Biotech, Now Has Opposite Debilitating Effects Today’s specter of harmful and inordinately priced drugs pressed on legislators and the…
Integrity of Scientific Findings Marred Tue, 2 Dec 2003 Two cases shed light on a cultural malaise and the price we pay when scientists fail to adhere to scrupulous scientific methods: Dr. Thomas Butler, chief of infectious diseases division of Texas Tech University, ran afoul of the law; Dr. George…
Wed, 04 May 2005 Researchers Tested AIDS Drugs on Children, Associated Press On March 10, 2004, The Alliance for Human Research Protection filed a complaint with the FDA and the federal Office of Human Research Protection about a series of AIDS drug experiments conducted on New York City children in…
Junk Science Hits Front Page Headlines: Most Americans Will Be Mentally Ill at Some Point – NIMH / Harvard Study Says Tue, 7 Jun 2005 Americans may be astonished to learn that $20 million in taxpayers’ money was spent on a study whose unacknowledged purpose is to increase the use…