In 2004, I broke open the NIH clinical trial scandal - government researchers using New York City orphans in clinical trials with combinations of highly toxic, speculative drugs. Read the story below.
- Knowing is Beautiful and Sex Crimes - Parts one and two of “The Hidden Face of HIV” GNN 2005 - a review and analysis of what is known as "HIV Testing", in two parts.
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Patricia Nell Warren comments on the NIH Orphans-in-drug-trials scandal in her column in Arts and Understanding Magazine:
- Asking the Questions May 2004; What does it mean when a story about possible clinical trial abuses hits the wire, but most news media ignore it?
- Banana Ethics
June 2005; Why does corruption in AIDS research continue to go unpunished?
- What Were They Thinking? August 2005; Inspired by lax oversight in the world of medicine, a new watchdog fights for ethical standards.
Bird Flu Investigation:
Debate:
Debate is the Heart and Soul of a Civil Society.
- HPV Debate "The Vaccine (that doesn’t stop) the virus (that doesn’t cause cancer) " Gardisil Vaccinations for adolescent girls – Cui Bono? GNN, December 2006
- AIDS Drugs - Drugs with severe and deadly side-effects, used in New York City orphans and throughout Africa. A necessary evil, or just bad medicine?
An AIDS Debate: Email Correspondence between Liam Scheff and a Mainstream AIDS History Researcher at Duke University (June 2006)
NY Orphans in Government Drug Trials - NY Press (Spring, 2005)
What Does AIDS Have To Do With Sex?
- At the Guerrilla News Network (see comments to articles) on Africa and Russia - Summer 2006
- The British Medical Journal debates Sex and AIDS - 2003-2004
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