Psychiatric Researchers Condemned For Lack Of Integrity ...

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Originally published June 11 2008

 

Alliance for Human Research Protection Condemns Psychiatric

Researchers for Lack of Integrity and Hidden Financial Ties

by Mike Adams

 

(NaturalNews) Following yesterday's feature article about the

criminal behavior of psychiatric drug promoter Dr. Biederman and his

colleagues who secretly accepted millions of dollars in unreported

income from drug companies, the story has found new life in the

mainstream media. Astonishingly, the mainstream media is starting to

come around to the fact that psychiatric medicine as practiced today

is a cruel, moneymaking hoax that seeks to label every man, woman and

child with a psychiatric disorder that demands chemical treatment.

 

See yesterday's feature article here:

http://www.naturalnews.com/023408.html

 

The criminal behavior demonstrated by Dr. Biederman and other top

psychiatric disease mongers is now receiving widespread condemnation

by even the very newspapers, magazines and news programs that are

largely funded by Big Pharma! When the New York Times makes

statements that imply psychiatric drugs are dangerous chemicals that

promote obesity and diabetes, it's an indication of a monumental

shift in the thinking of mainstream Americans. It shows that we're

winning the war against psychiatric medicine and it's only a matter

of time before these drug-pushing criminals are stopped. Better yet,

we hope to see them rounded up, prosecuted, and thrown in prison for

the outrageous crimes they have committed by, for example, using the

brains of four-year old children in medical experiments involving

psychotropic drugs.

 

I can only hope that the same level of condemnation extends to

Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital for

supporting such activities among their researchers. Harvard Medical

School has a lot to answer for in terms of its role in enabling these

criminals to operate under the prestige of the name " Harvard, " and

the response of Harvard Medical School in these matters will

demonstrate whether the organization has any real medical ethics of

its own.

 

 

Vera Hassner Sharav, President of the Alliance for Human Research

Protection, Joins Condemnation

The Alliance for Human Research Protection is an important non-profit

ogranization comprised of scientists, doctors and consumers who work

to protect human beings from exploitation by mad scientists and drug

companies who, throughout history, have always tried to exploit

humans for medical experimentation. His comments on the Dr. Biederman

scandal appeared on Google News, and are reprinted here as a public

service to NaturalNews readers and the AHRP (www.AHRP.org)

 

Here is what Vera Hassner Sharav had to say about Dr. Biederman and

psychiatric research:

 

In June, 2008, the New York Times reports that Dr. Joseph Biederman

(and two of his collaborators at Harvard's Massachusetts General

Hospital, Dr Timothy E Wilens and Dr Thomas Spencer) violated legal

requirements by failing to disclose their multi-million dollar

financial ties to manufacturers whose drugs they have tested in

children and promoted for use in children.

 

An investigation by Senator Charles Grassley uncovered evidence of

copious payments which the three psychiatrists at first denied-until

faced with documentation provided by the drug manufacturers. The

conduct of these three prominent psychiatrists casts a dark cloud

over their personal integrity which necessarily raises questions

about their professional integrity as well.

 

In June, 2007, the Boston Globe described Dr. Biederman as

follows: " From his perch as one of the world's most influential child

psychiatrists, Biederman has spread far and wide his conviction that

the emotional roller coaster of bipolar disorder can start " from the

moment the child opened his eyes " at birth. " [1]

 

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/d...

 

In 2005, another Harvard psychiatrist, Dr. Ronald Kessler claimed

that 46.4% of Americans met the standards for a mental illness

diagnosis. [2]

 

Needless to say, such claims are not backed by any scientific

evidence-but exhibit rather the absence of professionally valid

diagnostic standards. They fall into the category of promotional

hype, and reflect grandiose marketing goals.

 

Even before Sen. Grassley uncovered hidden corporate financial

underpinnings, Dr. Biederman's aggressive promotion of the wide use

of antipsychotic drugs for U.S. children raised serious concerns

about his professional integrity and judgment.

 

In September, 2007, CBS News, 60 Minutes aired a highly critical

report about Dr. Biederman and the Mass. General team for

recommending the most aggressive pharmacological treatment for the

broadest group of children. See, " What Killed Rebecca Riley? "

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/...

 

Dr. Biederman' enormous influence persuaded others to follow his

recommended prescribing practices, resulting in a 40-fold escalation

in the use of these drugs for children. When such aggressive drug

treatment goes wrong - as in the case of 4 year old Rebecca Riley -

it behooves Dr. Biederman to assume responsibility. More so when it

has been disclosed that Dr. Biederman has had a high financial stake

in promoting the increased use of antipsychotics in children.

 

Currently, Dr. Biederman is listed as investigator in 27 clinical

trials on http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?t...

 

About 13 studies fare currently recruiting child subjects: 13 studies

have been completed or no longer recruiting, and one study involving

6-17 year old children which was to test the antidepressant,

Wellbutrin (Bupropion SR) was terminated. This raises red flags about

undisclosed adverse events. In two drug trials, 4 to 6 year old

children were the target population: one completed study tested

tolerability of two toxic antipsychotics - Zyprexa (olanzapine) and

Risperdal (risperidone) and another study (currently recruiting) will

test the antipsychotic Seroquel (quetiapine).

 

The data from these studies needs to be independently evaluated to

learn:

 

• What adverse effects did children suffer in the trials?

• How many children dropped out because of intolerable side-effects?

• What evidence is there of a clinically significant benefit for

children?

• What did the informed consent forms disclose to parents about the

risks involved?

• What information was disclosed about payment to the investigators?

 

Pharmaceutical company payments to physicians are, in essence, fees

for promotional services rendered. Doctors who accept such payments --

be they in academia or in private practice -- become company agents,

serving company interests, much like employees. Doctors who conceal

payments from industry cannot, therefore, be trusted to render

informed, objective, learned opinions. By concealing their corporate

income, doctors lose their professional integrity.

 

The Alliance for Human Research Protection supports the legislation

introduced by Senator Grassley, Republican of Iowa, and Senator Herb

Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, that would require drug and device

makers to report annually any payments to doctors that exceed $500 a

year. " That is the best way to ensure that conflicts of interest are

transparent to all. "

 

References:

 

1. See: Scott Allen, Backlash on bipolar diagnoses in children MGH

psychiatrist's work stirs debate, Boston Globe, June 17, 2007.

 

2. Ronald C. Kessler, Patricia Berglund, et al. Lifetime Prevalence

and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National

Comorbidity Survey Replication Archives Gen Psychiatry. 2005;62:593-

602.

 

 

Join NaturalNews in calling for the arrest and prosecution of Dr.

Biederman

In yesterday's feature article, we urged readers to contact Harvard

Medical School and Mass. General Hospital to demand that Dr.

Biederman be fired. Today, following further revelations about the

extent of Dr. Biederman's medical experimentation on children, we are

calling for the arrest and prosecution of Dr. Biederman for his

crimes against children.

 

We are asking that any parent with a child that was harmed by Dr.

Biederman's medical experiments call your local law enforcement

authorities (or the FBI) and explain that a man is using dangerous

chemicals to conduct medical experiments on children, and that you

are willing to press criminal charges against Dr. Biederman. Then

call us at 520-232-9300 so we can cover the story.

 

We need to find a parent willing to press charges for this criminal

action to carry any weight, so if you are a parent of a child used in

Dr. Biederman's medical experiments -- or if you know a parent who

would be willing to talk to us about this -- simply forward this

article to them and ask them to pick up the phone and contact us. We

will help them press criminal charges against Dr. Biederman. Sadly,

we may not find any parent willing to do this because, let's face it:

Parents who are willing to allow their children to participate in

such medical experiments usually aren't very well informed on health

in the first place. Many of these parents, in fact, are likely on

mind-altering medication themselves, so don't keep your fingers

crossed on our ability to see this through.

 

It is astonishing that, with all the harm being caused by psychiatric

doctors, nobody has yet found the presence of mind to simply pick up

the phone and call the FBI, or the Sheriff, or the local police to

begin a criminal investigation into what I call the " chemical

molestation of children " being conducted by psychiatric researchers

today. If molesting a child is a crime (as it should be), then why is

chemically harming a child's brain not equally concerning to parents?

(Answer: Because it's cleverly framed in the language of " treatment "

and other psychobabble designed to confound uninformed parents who

gullibly believe whatever an apparent medical authority says -- even

when it's completely hogwash.)

 

Thank you all for your enthusiastic comments about our continued

coverage of this important topic. I believe we have turned the corner

on this in the mainstream media. Cracks are starting to appear in the

wall of denial that has been erected by the psychiatric industry for

so long, and once the truth comes out on this topic, even the

billions of dollars in Big Pharma influence won't be able to stop the

tidal wave of public outrage that's about to be unleashed. I imagine

a day when a million moms march on Washington, demanding prosecutions

of all the psychiatric doctors and greedy drug companies that put

their children on mind-altering drugs for no justifiable medical

reason whatsoever!

 

When this happens, NaturalNews will be there, rallying the public to

join in this long-overdue backlash against modern psychiatry. When

criminals like Dr. Biederman are marched off to prison in handcuffs

and orange jumpsuits, we'll be there to document the event and post

it on NaturalNews.com so that future generations can learn from the

monumental errors of our current generation.

 

Psychiatric medicine is to the modern world as the Holocaust was to

the 1930's. It is a form of chemical warfare against the People, and

it is a crime against all of humanity.

 

 

 

 

 

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