Salty Current

“People of progressive (and ‘feminist’) mindsets have always been quick to assure me (and others who’ve been sexually assaulted) that we ca...

Various committees have sprung up to debate a new constitution, society, work, and how to occupy the square with more permanent wooden struc...

Popular Resistance : An unprecedented coalition of 29 faith-based Palestine solidarity groups as well as peace and justice organizations a...

“Brill goes to great lengths – in 15 chapters published one per day – to document a vast amount of the Risperdal story, so it is perplexing ...

Buckraking .

“[F]or the rest of us Krispy Kreme represents the siren call of diabetes, obesity, clogged hearts, and death - we can only hope a death that...

Via PBS NewsHour :

Steven Brill’s exposé in serial form of Johnson & Johnson’s illegal marketing of Risperdal for vulnerable children and old people. S...

“Repositioning American Ps[y]chiatric Association from wise sage to caring ruler, we changed everything from messaging to their logo to supp...

The high school junior won the grand prize at this year’s Google Science Fair for her quick Ebola test. If only every student could have ...

“[Robert] Califf’s appointment as FDA commissioner would accelerate a decades-long trend in which agency leadership too often makes decision...

Experimercial.

This report in the Guardian about the reanalysis of the infamous Study 329 links to both the reanalysis itself and an accompanying featur...

Last year, I posted about a debate at the British Medical Journal about whether the journal should stop publishing pharma-funded research ...

The sleazy, repressive, illegitimate regime in Honduras has hired Ketchum (for more about which, see here , here , here , here , and here ...

“In this murky area of standards for retraction, there are some no-brainers – fabrication of data and plagiarism as prime examples. I would ...

“Study 329: The Final Chapter Coming Soon” : Arguably the most controversial drug study ever, Study 329, published in July 2001: 1. Concl...

“The enterprise of deculturation turns out to be the negative of a more gigantic work of economic, and even biological, enslavement. The d...

“Tignous and his from now on inseparable comrades. Journalists, cartoonists, economist, psychoanalyst, proofreader, guards—they were the sen...

[I know this is a second one: I haven’t posted in a few days and have a bit of a backlog.] “The more fundamental question is what it means...