I'll be talking (online) about whistleblowing in medical research to a group associated with the Ontario Medical Association on Tuesday, Nov 11 at 7 pm EST. Details here: www.oma.org/news/events/... @philosophyumn.bsky.social

The pharmaceutical industry spent decades manipulating the country’s top drug regulator into rubber-stamping its products. The Trump administration is making matters worse. www.levernews.com/science-for-...

Great piece highlighting the eugenic (and dysgenic) atrocities overlooked in bioethics scholarship. "Unlike many other research scandals, Willowbrook is discussed . . . usually in summary form, . . . whitewash[ing] its true horrors." @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...

Illuminating analysis of Forced Ketamine Studies, Excited Delirium, and Police Violence by @carlelliott.bsky.social and Lauren Wilson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Oof. @carlelliott.bsky.social brings up the Annals editorial where patients with ExD are repeatedly compared with "wild beasts?" e.g. "So why not treat people like wild beasts?" www.annemergmed.com/article/S019...

The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...

"Bioethicists owe a large debt to the historians who have excavated the research scandals of the past, but not all scandals have been consigned to history." www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc... By @carlelliott.bsky.social

My recent article in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics on Ontario MAID Death Review Committee reports, in particular on #MAID for Dementia, reveals minimalistic capacity evaluations, questionable informed consent procedures, stretching legal criteria… #euthanasia www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

“Bioethicists owe a debt to historians who excavated the research scandals of the past,…[but] you can see them at medical institutions everywhere, including your own….you may be repelled by what you see.” @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...

www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc... you would think that research scandals and abuses would draw bioethicists’ attention, but they don’t. Why? @carlelliott.bsky.social explores this question in Hastings Bioethics Forum.

The NBA integrated 75 years ago with the debuts of three Black players. www.nytimes.com/athletic/676...

Barry Hoffmaster (1947-2025) share.google/EDGT7g8VdbO7...

Blatant research ethics transgressions. Who will ever hold the US government accountable for these egregious, harmful, unjustified actions?

The Hennepin Healthcare Forced Ketamine Trials, Excited Delirium and Police Violence. Our latest, just out in The Hastings Center Report. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FX5M4D...

⚕️MedSky⚕️ Ketamine Fails to Outperform Placebo in Major Depression Trial

"One person injected with ketamine was a suspected jaywalker. Others were already handcuffed or strapped to a stretcher when they were injected. In some cases, the ketamine resulted in cardiac or respiratory failure." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @carlelliott.bsky.social & Lauren Wilson

I hope the University of Minnesota has the guts to reject this extortion attempt. But I am not optimistic. archive.ph/DsJib

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The Buffalo Federal Detention Facility abruptly stopped accepting book deliveries for detainees in July.

Last 1. After being fired by Phoenix Children's Hospital and decamping to a "biomed" autism private practice, can you guess what IRB the practice uses. OT: funky retracted MDMA trials anyone? Bonus points for NDA rejected by FDA. (MAPS, unrelated to Frye)

WIRB was involved in several of the disasters cataloged in David Evan's Polk Prize winning feature "Big Pharma's Shameful Secret" www.dcscience.net/pharma-bloom... I'll *try* to shut up now.

Did you know that private equity firms oversee the ethics of clinical research in the US? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

"The president of the University of Minnesota makes a million dollars a year. But if she didn’t clock in to work for a day, most students on campus would never notice." But maintenance workers? That's a different story, as we will all see very soon. www.startribune.com/brooks-strik...

Why is the University of Minnesota hosting a recruiting event for border patrol agents today? career.umn.edu/events/2025/...

The University of Minnesota is shelling out $15 million to a marketing firm which has come up with these genius slogans. racketmn.com/ski-u-market...

If the paywall has prevented you from reading the Boston Globe's terrific, depressing article about how MIT President Sally Kornbluth helped cover up research fraud when she was at Duke, here is a link for you, courtesy of Paul Thacker: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Let’s Not Erase the History of Medical Ethics www.thehastingscenter.org/lets-not-era...

"After cycling through a dizzying array of psychiatric medications, Scott Griffin found himself with the barrel of a gun in his mouth in November." www.wsj.com/health/healt...

It feels like we're in the Twilight Zone." kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

The perverse incentives driving assisted suicide "Encouraging citizens to accept a Quietus may seem like a cost-saving measure at a time when the financial burden of their care has never been greater." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/o...

Sisyphus on the golf course t.co/YqXsA0I5rv

A gene therapy is linked to liver failure, but the maker says no to the FDA's request to withdraw it www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...

Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...

Another legendary local institution goes down. www.startribune.com/homestead-pi...

In Hellions, "Julia Elliott embraces the grotesque, playing with a rich literary tradition and molding it into something wholly her own. These tales teem with supernatural creatures -- demons, hags, changelings and swamp apes -- but it's the humans who are most compelling." tinyurl.com/3kndjpd9

21/ Read part one of my investigation about Dr. Nancy Harper, which was published yesterday, here: www.propublica.org/article/chil...

Yesterday, we published a story about Dr. Nancy Harper, a powerful child abuse pediatrician. Here’s Part 2 of my investigation 👇 www.propublica.org/article/chil... bsky.app/profile/jlus...

Today I listened to "The Occasional Human Sacrifice" by @carlelliott.bsky.social, who shows how psychological, social, and institutional factors conspire to suppress action against unethical medical experimentation. Highly recommend Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (2/2)

Sad to hear of the death of Bill Moyers. One of the greats. www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...

"Why did autism-related diagnoses explode so far beyond what our task force had predicted?" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

The bloat is back. www.startribune.com/university-o...

This is excellent. Tyrese Haliburton Has Worn Me Down www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

Finally www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/s...

Fulbright Board Quits After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

FDA Approved — And Ineffective www.levernews.com/fda-approved...