About Liam
August 26th, 2006 — -
Liam Scheff is a writer on politics, hidden history, race, class and culture.
Liam is a vegetarian, (macrobiotic-ish), has traveled widely (though there’s always more to see) and worked and studied in a variety of fields (though there’s always more to learn). His politics are more conservative than neo-lib, more liberal than neo-con, and more independent than either.
Liam has worked as an investigative journalist, and as such was published in the New York Press, LA Citybeat, Boston’s Weekly Dig, Hustler and the Guerrilla News Network, among others. In 2004 he broke open the NIH clinical trial scandal – government researchers using New York City orphans in clinical trials with combinations of highly toxic, speculative drugs. The story has been covered internationally.
He has been an activist for children and adolescent rights, and informed consent in medicine. Growing up in a family of doctors and researchers, medicine was the family language and business, and Liam became aware of its changing nature, and the often vast distance between the internal conflicts of current research, and the carefully crafted public pronouncements – a distance that has grown immense in the last two decades.
Liam is currently working on a documentary about private schools for “troubled teens,” which find their roots in several cult movements of the 1950s and 60s.