Carl Elliott
@carlelliott.bsky.social
Author of The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No (Norton, 2024) #whistleblowing #bioethics #philosophy Words in The Atlantic, New Yorker, New York Times, New York Review of Books
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I'll be talking (online) about whistleblowing in medical research to a group associated with the Ontario Medical Association on Tuesday, Nov 11 at 7 pm EST. Details here:
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Doctors’ Lounge: An Evening with Dr. Carl Elliott
The Doctors’ Lounge Program is part of the District 11 health and wellness initiative designed to provide Toronto physicians with opportunities to interact in a collegial, non-clinical setting.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I'll be talking (online) about whistleblowing in medical research to a group associated with the Ontario Medical Association on Tuesday, Nov 11 at 7 pm EST. Details here:
www.oma.org/news/events/...
@philosophyumn.bsky.social
www.oma.org/news/events/...
@philosophyumn.bsky.social
The pharmaceutical industry spent decades manipulating the country’s top drug regulator into rubber-stamping its products. The Trump administration is making matters worse.
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Science For Sale: How Drugmakers Captured The FDA
The pharmaceutical industry spent decades manipulating the country’s top drug regulator into rubber-stamping its products. The Trump administration is making matters worse.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The pharmaceutical industry spent decades manipulating the country’s top drug regulator into rubber-stamping its products. The Trump administration is making matters worse.
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Great piece highlighting the eugenic (and dysgenic) atrocities overlooked in bioethics scholarship. "Unlike many other research scandals, Willowbrook is discussed . . . usually in summary form, . . . whitewash[ing] its true horrors." @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.
www.thehastingscenter.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Great piece highlighting the eugenic (and dysgenic) atrocities overlooked in bioethics scholarship. "Unlike many other research scandals, Willowbrook is discussed . . . usually in summary form, . . . whitewash[ing] its true horrors." @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
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Illuminating analysis of Forced Ketamine Studies, Excited Delirium, and Police Violence by @carlelliott.bsky.social and Lauren Wilson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Hennepin Healthcare Forced Ketamine Studies, Excited Delirium, and Police Violence
In the summer of 2018, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported clinical trials at Hennepin County Medical Center in which emergency medical personnel were injecting agitated individuals with ketamine, ...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Illuminating analysis of Forced Ketamine Studies, Excited Delirium, and Police Violence by @carlelliott.bsky.social and Lauren Wilson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Oof.
@carlelliott.bsky.social brings up the Annals editorial where patients with ExD are repeatedly compared with "wild beasts?"
e.g. "So why not treat people like wild beasts?"
www.annemergmed.com/article/S019...
@carlelliott.bsky.social brings up the Annals editorial where patients with ExD are repeatedly compared with "wild beasts?"
e.g. "So why not treat people like wild beasts?"
www.annemergmed.com/article/S019...
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Oof.
@carlelliott.bsky.social brings up the Annals editorial where patients with ExD are repeatedly compared with "wild beasts?"
e.g. "So why not treat people like wild beasts?"
www.annemergmed.com/article/S019...
@carlelliott.bsky.social brings up the Annals editorial where patients with ExD are repeatedly compared with "wild beasts?"
e.g. "So why not treat people like wild beasts?"
www.annemergmed.com/article/S019...
The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...
The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate
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November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...
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"Bioethicists owe a large debt to the historians who have excavated the research scandals of the past, but not all scandals have been consigned to history." www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc... By @carlelliott.bsky.social
What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.
www.thehastingscenter.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"Bioethicists owe a large debt to the historians who have excavated the research scandals of the past, but not all scandals have been consigned to history." www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc... By @carlelliott.bsky.social
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My recent article in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics on Ontario MAID Death Review Committee reports, in particular on #MAID for Dementia, reveals minimalistic capacity evaluations, questionable informed consent procedures, stretching legal criteria… #euthanasia www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
My recent article in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics on Ontario MAID Death Review Committee reports, in particular on #MAID for Dementia, reveals minimalistic capacity evaluations, questionable informed consent procedures, stretching legal criteria… #euthanasia www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
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“Bioethicists owe a debt to historians who excavated the research scandals of the past,…[but] you can see them at medical institutions everywhere, including your own….you may be repelled by what you see.” @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.
www.thehastingscenter.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Bioethicists owe a debt to historians who excavated the research scandals of the past,…[but] you can see them at medical institutions everywhere, including your own….you may be repelled by what you see.” @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...
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www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc... you would think that research scandals and abuses would draw bioethicists’ attention, but they don’t. Why? @carlelliott.bsky.social explores this question in Hastings Bioethics Forum.
What Research Scandals? Welcome to the Bioethics Memory Hole : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.
www.thehastingscenter.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc... you would think that research scandals and abuses would draw bioethicists’ attention, but they don’t. Why? @carlelliott.bsky.social explores this question in Hastings Bioethics Forum.
The NBA integrated 75 years ago with the debuts of three Black players.
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The NBA integrated 75 years ago with the debuts of three Black players
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October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The NBA integrated 75 years ago with the debuts of three Black players.
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Barry Hoffmaster (1947-2025) share.google/EDGT7g8VdbO7...
Barry Hoffmaster (1947-2025) - Daily Nous
Charles Barry Hoffmaster, professor emeritus of philosophy at Western University, has died. Professor Hoffmaster (known in the profession as Barry Hoffmaster), worked mainly in bioethics, normative et...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Blatant research ethics transgressions.
Who will ever hold the US government accountable for these egregious, harmful, unjustified actions?
Who will ever hold the US government accountable for these egregious, harmful, unjustified actions?
“alter the language of your grant title — otherwise it would be at risk of not being funded”
This what they’ve done to NIH! 😔
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This what they’ve done to NIH! 😔
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Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
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October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Blatant research ethics transgressions.
Who will ever hold the US government accountable for these egregious, harmful, unjustified actions?
Who will ever hold the US government accountable for these egregious, harmful, unjustified actions?
The Hennepin Healthcare Forced Ketamine Trials, Excited Delirium and Police Violence.
Our latest, just out in The Hastings Center Report.
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Our latest, just out in The Hastings Center Report.
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The Hennepin Healthcare Forced Ketamine Studies, Excited Delirium, and Police Violence
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October 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Hennepin Healthcare Forced Ketamine Trials, Excited Delirium and Police Violence.
Our latest, just out in The Hastings Center Report.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FX5M4D...
Our latest, just out in The Hastings Center Report.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FX5M4D...
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Ketamine Fails to Outperform Placebo in Major Depression Trial
Ketamine Fails to Outperform Placebo in Major Depression Trial
Ketamine Fails to Outperform Placebo in Major Depression Trial - Neuroscience News
A large randomized and blinded clinical trial has found no additional benefit of repeated ketamine infusions over standard inpatient care for treating major depression.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Ketamine Fails to Outperform Placebo in Major Depression Trial
Ketamine Fails to Outperform Placebo in Major Depression Trial
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"One person injected with ketamine was a suspected jaywalker. Others were already handcuffed or strapped to a stretcher when they were injected. In some cases, the ketamine resulted in cardiac or respiratory failure." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @carlelliott.bsky.social & Lauren Wilson
October 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"One person injected with ketamine was a suspected jaywalker. Others were already handcuffed or strapped to a stretcher when they were injected. In some cases, the ketamine resulted in cardiac or respiratory failure." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @carlelliott.bsky.social & Lauren Wilson
I hope the University of Minnesota has the guts to reject this extortion attempt. But I am not optimistic.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I hope the University of Minnesota has the guts to reject this extortion attempt. But I am not optimistic.
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After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
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Depraved.
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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
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October 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
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Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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The Buffalo Federal Detention Facility abruptly stopped accepting book deliveries for detainees in July.
New York’s largest ICE detention camp is blocking book deliveries.
ICE is depraved, and every day they seem to find new ways to lash out. Their incompetence—from out-of-shape squadristi getting embarrassed in Chicago to the poorly written snivelings of racist penc…
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October 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Buffalo Federal Detention Facility abruptly stopped accepting book deliveries for detainees in July.
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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)
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.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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)
OT: funky retracted MDMA trials anyone? Bonus points for NDA rejected by FDA. (MAPS, unrelated to Frye)
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WIRB was involved in several of the disasters cataloged in David Evan's Polk Prize winning feature "Big Pharma's Shameful Secret"
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I'll *try* to shut up now.
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I'll *try* to shut up now.
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October 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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.
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I'll *try* to shut up now.
Did you know that private equity firms oversee the ethics of clinical research in the US?
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How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research
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October 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Did you know that private equity firms oversee the ethics of clinical research in the US?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
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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.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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...
Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
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October 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"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...
But maintenance workers? That's a different story, as we will all see very soon.
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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.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"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...
But maintenance workers? That's a different story, as we will all see very soon.
www.startribune.com/brooks-strik...