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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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Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner_Nobel. 2jpgDr. Sydney Brenner, PhD, Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine (2002), deplores the current profit-driven culture in science. A culture in which he believes — as do a significant growing number of genuine scientists and physicians — genuine breakthroughs and important discoveries are impeded.

In a recent interview in King’s Review magazine (2014) he expressed his critical views of the current profit-driven culture in science which he believe is producing rubbish while impeding genuine scientific breakthroughs and discoveries which do not follow the dictates of commerce.

He deplores the fact that those who hold the purse strings dictate and limit the parameters of the pursuit of science:

There’s no exploration any more except in a very few places. You know like someone going off to study Neanderthal bones. Can you see this happening anywhere else? No, you see, because he would need to do something that’s important to advance the aims of the people who fund science.

The supporters now dictate what paths scientists may explore, demanding that time be spent on crafting a constant stream of high impact publications. . . The bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get [a project] supported, they want to know from the start that it will work. This means you have to have preliminary information, which means that you are bound to follow the straight and narrow.

He notes that the drive to publish or perish has led American academics to develop a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. He is especially critical of the dictatorial power of so-called high impact scientific journals:

“I don’t believe in peer review because I think it’s very distorted and as I’ve said, it’s simply a regression to the mean. I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It’s corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.

There are universities in America. . . that won’t consider people’s publications in low impact factor journals. . . . this has assembled a most ridiculous group of people. I campaigned against this [culture] because I think it is not only bad, it’s corrupt. In other words it puts the judgment in the hands of people who really have no reason to exercise judgment at all. And that’s all been done in the aid of commerce, because they are now giant organisations making money out of it.

He is also appalled by the fact that journals have stripped authors of their copyrights:

there was a time, and I’m trying to trace the history when the rights to publish, the copyright, was owned jointly by the authors and the journal. Somehow that’s why the journals insist they will not publish your paper unless you sign that copyright over. It is never stated in the invitation, but that’s what you sell in order to publish. And everybody works for these journals for nothing. There’s no compensation. There’s nothing. They get everything free. They just have to employ a lot of failed scientists, editors who are just like the people at Homeland Security, little power grabbers in their own sphere.

Because publications have become a proxy for research quality, publications in high impact factor journals are the metric used by grant and promotion committees to assess individual researchers. The problem is that impact factor, which is based on the number of times papers are cited, does not necessarily correlate with good science. To maximize impact factor, journal editors seek out sensational papers, which boldly challenge norms or explore trendy topics, and ignore less spectacular, but equally important things like replication studies or negative results. As a consequence, academics are incentivised to produce research that caters to these demands.

Indeed, he cites a recent study that found that only six out of 53 landmark studies in cancer research were replicable. In another study, researchers were only able to repeat a quarter of 67 influential papers in their field. Wistfully, he suggests that:

Academics are slowly awakening to the fact that this dogged drive to publish rubbish has serious consequences on the quality of the science that they produce, which have far reaching consequences for public policy, costs, and human lives. (How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation: A Conversation with Sydney Brenner by Elizabeth Dzeng, Feb. 4, 2014 in King’s Review)

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