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Alliance for Human Research Protection

Alliance for Human Research Protection

Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention
  • About
    • Mission Statement
    • Board of Directors
    • Distinguished Advisory Board
    • Honor Roll–Exemplary Professionals
    • Contact
    • Subscribe to the AHRP Mailing List
    • Donate
    • Videos
  • Medical Ethics
    • “First, do no Harm”
    • Human Rights
    • Informed Consent
    • Nuremberg Code
  • Eugenics / Bioethics
    • Gene Modification
    • Corrupt Public Health
    • Racialized Science
    • Medicalized Racism
  • Corrupted Science
    • Bias/Fraud
    • Propaganda – Censorship
    • Clinical Trials
    • Concealed Data
    • Public-Private Partnerships
    • Pharma Corrupt Influence
    • Publication Bias
  • Medical Atrocities
    • Current Medical Atrocities
    • Japanese Atrocities
    • Nazi Atrocities
    • Operation Paperclip
    • CIA Mind-Control
    • CIA Torture
    • U.S. Radiation Experiments
    • Unethical Experiments
  • Current Controversies
    • Apartheid Policies
    • Coronavirus Fear
    • Covid Pandemic
    • Epidemics
    • Government Overreach
  • Vaccines
    • Vaccine Mandates
    • Vaccine Risks
    • Vaccine Safety

AHRP Distinguished Advisory Board

Elizabeth Mumper
MD, FAAP, IFMCP
Peter Eichacker
MD
Edward F. Fogerty, III
MD
Allan S Cunningham, MD Cunningham
MD
Dianne N. Irving, PhD Irving
Bose Ravenel
MD, FAAP
Alvin H Moss
MD, Professor
Antonietta M. Gatti
Ph.D.
Sidney M. Baker
MD
Cammy R. Benton
MD
Carol Stott
Ph.D., Clinical Psych.
Nancy Banks
MD
Christiane Northrup
MD
Christopher Exley
Ph.D., Professor
David Brownstein
MD, Pediatrician
Garth Nicholson
Ph.D.
Nicole Delépine
MD
Gerárd Delépine
MD
Gayle DeLong
Ph.D.
Hendrieka Fitzpatrick
MD
Howard Morningstar
MD
James Lyons-Weiler
Ph.D.
Kelly Sutton
MD, Internist
Kenneth P. Stoller
MD, FACHM
Manuel F. Casanova
MD, Professor
Paul Thomas
MD, Pediatrician
Philip Incao
MD
Prachi Garodia
MD, Internist
Prashanthi Atluri
MD
Richard Moskowitz
MD
Sandy Reider
MD
Sin Hang Lee
MD FRCP (C)
Stephanie Seneff
Ph.D. MIT
Tiffany Baer
MD, Internist
Christopher Shaw
Ph.D., Professor
Jacob Puliyel
MD, MRCP
Kenneth Saul
MD
James (Jim) Meehan
MD
Melanie Gisler
DO
John Oller
Ph.D.

AHRP Board Member’s Recent Posts, Testimonies, Publications

07. 2020. COVID19: Three Bits of Science That CDC, Fauci and FDA Forgot, and One They Would Like to Forget , James Lyons-Weiler

07. 2020. A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-19 Using Nutritional and Oxidative Therapies , David Brownstein , Science, Public Health Policy & the Law

06. 2020. Gresham's Law and the Covid Pandemic , Jacob Puliyel , Sunday Guardian (India)

06. 2020. WHO trial using potentially fatal hydroxychloroquine dose--according to WHO consultant , Meryl Nass

05. 2020. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Corrupt, coordinated assault managed by WHO on an inexpensive and effective treatment / Nass , Meryl Nass

03. 2020. Coronavirus Pandemic: Is It Time to Wind Down the Rhetoric? , Jacob Puliyel , The Wire

03. 2020. An important proposal that ameliorates our lack of protective equipment and spares both patients and healthcare workers , Meryl Nass , Anthrax Vaccine

02. 2020. Proposed School Exclusion Bad for America’s Kids, Doctors and Educators Say , Jennifer Margulis

02. 2020. Education: An Open Letter on Exemptions , Edward F. Fogerty, III

02. 2020. Protecting Yourself from Covid-19 , Meryl Nass

02. 2020. The Jig Is Up , Richard Moskowitz

06. 2019. Truth in Research Labelling , John Noble, Jr. , Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

04. 2019. Missing, hidden and destroyed adverse event data. Who vaccinates? , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. Whither Cochrane? , Meryl Nass , Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

03. 2019. A sample of vaccine and injectable medication tragedies in the US during my lifetime , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. The Skinny on Pertussis, Vaccines and Enforced Mandates , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. My testimony on vaccine exemptions to the Maine joint Education and Cultural Affairs Committee , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. Indisputable: CDC is not making prudent vaccine recommendations , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. OP-ED: Why Americans don’t trust vaccine makers , Meryl Nass

01. 2019. Measles: Two U.S. Outbreaks are Blamed on Low Vaccination Rates, Another Perspective , Meryl Nass , British Medical Journal

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Marcia Angell

Marcia Angell MD2The first woman Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, currently Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Her book, The Truth About the Drug Companies (2004).

Her rude awakening to the “ubiquitous” conflicts of interest in medicine was when she was pushed out of in her position at the NEJM. In her last editorial in the NEJM, Is Academic Medicine for Sale? (2000) Dr. Angell wrote:

. . . corporate influence in medicine is ubiquitous, extending far beyond individual physician-researchers: its influence determines what research is conducted, how it is done, and the way it is reported. Short-term corporate goals take priority over society’s long-term needs. Under corporate influence, more research is done comparing trivial differences between one drug and another, less research is done to gain knowledge about the causes of disease.

Since then, Dr. Angell has been vocal in her criticism of the influence of money in medicine. Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption in The NY Review of Books (2009),

The Truth About Drug Companies. . . Similar conflicts of interest and biases exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs or devices. It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.

In 1997, a critical article in the NEJM, by Peter Lurie and Sydney Wolfe (Public Citizen) strongly criticized an unethical NIH-funded HIV study in Africa which raised the issue of ethical double-standards applied in research conducted in underdeveloped, poor countries. In her accompanying editorial, “The Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World,” Dr. Angell unequivocally took the position that “Human subjects in any part of the world should be protected by an irreducible set of ethical standards.”

Dr. Angell came to recognize psychiatry as the microcosm of commercially successful, but clinically disastrous medicine:

It seems that Americans are in the midst of a raging epidemic of mental illness, at least as judged by the increase in the numbers treated for it. The tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders that they qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) increased nearly two and a half times between 1987 and 2007 — from one in 184 Americans to one in seventy-six. For children, the rise is even more startling — a thirty-five-fold increase in the same two decades. Mental illness is now the leading cause of disability in children, well ahead of physical disabilities like cerebral palsy or Down syndrome, for which the federal programs were created. (The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? New York Review of Books, 2011)

Our health care system is based on the premise that health care is a commodity like VCRs or computers and that it should be distributed according to the ability to pay in the same way that consumer goods are. That’s not what health care should be. Health care is a need; it’s not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you’re very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you’re not sick, you shouldn’t have a lot of it. But this should be seen as a personal, individual need, not as a commodity to be distributed like other marketplace commodities. That is a fundamental mistake in the way this country, and only this country, looks at health care. And that market ideology is what has made the health care system so dreadful, so bad at what it does. Yes, it does do what markets are supposed to do. It expands. (“Are We in a Health Care Crisis?” PBS)

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