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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social · 3d

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)

Exclusive: Meet Richard Frye, who studies leucovorin for autism

Frye has led two placebo-controlled trials of the folate supplement in autistic people; the first was suspended by regulators, and the other has yet to be published.

www.thetransmitter.org

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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social · 3d

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.

www.dcscience.net

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · 3d

Faruk Abuzzahab

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know that private equity firms oversee the ethics of clinical research in the US?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research

www.nytimes.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

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...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · 5d

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · 27d

"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...

Brooks: Striking university workers hope students miss them — or at least the work they do

Workers enjoyed a bit of power after the pandemic. Big employers like the University of Minnesota are acting like those days are gone for good.

www.startribune.com

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Leonard Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Join Ice

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why is the University of Minnesota hosting a recruiting event for border patrol agents today?

career.umn.edu/events/2025/...

Border Patrol Agent Recruitment Webinar – September 3rd

The U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) needs you for higher grade opportunities and entry-level openings as a Border Patrol Agent, providing security for our nation’s borders from those who threaten legitim…

career.umn.edu

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thanks! That's an oldie.

Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Aug 30

Oh wait.

Inside Valpo's branding refresh: "Grounded, we radiate" | News | valpotorch.com share.google/xvJFDew9yJit...

valpotorch.com

Cloudy early with peeks of sunshine expected late. Slight chance of a rain shower. High 73F. Winds light and variable..

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Aug 30

Seriously? No.

Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Aug 30

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...

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Aug 22

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...

Sally Kornbluth tested by Duke research scandal before MIT job

www.documentcloud.org

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Aug 19

Let’s Not Erase the History of Medical Ethics

www.thehastingscenter.org/lets-not-era...

Let's Not Erase the History of Medical Ethics : The Hastings Center for Bioethics

If there is one thing that characterizes good history, it is transparency. Even if one objects to the intense focus on acknowledging diversity, equity, and inclusion over the past several years, erasi...

www.thehastingscenter.org

Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Aug 4

"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...

‘Combat Cocktail’: How America Overmedicates Veterans

To treat PTSD, the Department of Veterans Affairs put hundreds of thousands of patients on multiple streams of powerful drugs that put them at risk of suicide.

www.wsj.com

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Jul 27

It feels like we're in the Twilight Zone."

kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

U of M professor resigns but now works for the federal agency that was investigating him

An assistant professor who was under investigation at the University of Minnesota has resigned after 5 INVESTIGATES first reported allegations of research misconduct in May.

kstp.com

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · Jul 23

Industry uses ghostwriters to develop trial data. This is not controversial. It should be. I wrote a novel about it! It’s fascinating to see the public encounter the reality about drug approval literature.

Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · Jul 21

The labels are ghost written by pharma companies and the FDA just signs off (this is what we are told about drug labeling). Dr. Healy said this (paraphrasing)

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Jul 22

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...

Opinion | The Perverse Economics of Assisted Suicide

www.nytimes.com

Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Jul 21

Sisyphus on the golf course

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Jul 19

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...

Drugmaker Refuses F.D.A. Request to Pull Treatment Linked to Patient Deaths

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Jul 18

Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...

Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims, Data Shows

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Jul 9

Another legendary local institution goes down.

www.startribune.com/homestead-pi...

Homestead Pickin’ Parlor, a hub for Twin Cities acoustic musicians, will close July 31

After 46 years, the Richfield institution closes with no regrets; its rent doubled.

www.startribune.com

Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · Jul 6

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."

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Review: Julia Elliott’s ‘Hellions’ stories teem with natural and supernatural creatures | Chattanooga Times Free Press

"HELLIONS' by Julia Elliott (Tin House, 256 pages, $18).

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