Columbia U Study: Five-fold Increase Rx of Antipsychotics for children
This is documented evidence of major medical malpractice.
Industry’s Role–NYT_Just how much ‘new research’ can we trust? Sunday Times
“There is a crisis of credibility in medicine and science,” says Dr Joseph Sonnabend who, as a former virologist for the Medical Research Council and a retired Aids physician, has watched the basis for public confidence decline.
Bitter Pill: NEJM Waited 5 Years to Report Missing Data from published Vioxx Study_WSJ
A documented report by David Armstrong of The Wall Street Journal (below) shatters the last glimmer of illusion about The New England Journal of Medicine as a bastion of scientific and moral integrity.
GSK Reverses Decade of Denial: Paxil Triggered Suicide in Adults
GlaxoSmithKline Reverses Decade of Denial: in Clinical Trials Paxil Triggered Significantly More Suicide Attempts in Adults than Placebo
FDA Guidelines Targeted Children for HIV Vaccine Experiments_ Africa-AIDS Numbers Overstated_WashPos
This is an action alert to prevent the abuse of children who are sought as guinea pigs in HIV-AIDS vaccine trials!
Antipsychotics Killed at least 45 Children_FDA Not Concerned –USA Today
"I trusted the doctors, I trusted the FDA … and I feel betrayed by both," says Erin Evans, the mother of Rex who was prescribed the ‘atypical’ antipsychotic, Risperdal (risperidone) at age 8.
Yale-Lilly Experiment: Adolescents Rx Toxic Drug for Presumed Mental Illness They Do Not Have
When the Times refers to an experiment as "bold and controversial" the reporter is sanitizing the fact that the experiment is UNETHICAL—it violates medicine’s cardinal rule "First, do no harm."
NJ: Mandatory Mental Screening Women_Pill Pushers: NO Science, Salesmanship_FORBES
Three reports illustrate the wide and deepening disconnect between medicine under the influence of pharmaceutical industry marketing goals and scientific evidence that contradicts current practice and public health policies:
Conflicts of interest: psychiatry’s diagnostic manual DSM-III_DSM-IV
Dr. Robert Spitzer, who has continued to play a central role in DSM revisions since 1980, claim he does not think a conflict of interest exists.
See list of APA Task Force on DSM-IV and DSM-IV Revised Text at: https://ahrp.org/cms/content/view/145/27/
No Evidence of Pandemic_US Center for Disease Control Changes Bird Flu Policy
The Tacoma Tribune reports that the head of the Center for Disease Control, Dr. Julie Gerberding, has reversed the agency’s bird flu policy, which viewed the threat from the worse-case scenario lens.
Poisoning Children_SF Chronicle
"Top Republicans — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill– recently sold the future of our children to Big Pharma for a paltry $4 bucks a pop."
Disease Mongering_Conference / PLoS Special Issue
"Are we becoming patients for profit? That is the question knowledgeable observers are asking.