Carl Elliott

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.

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

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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.

Opinion | The Perverse Economics of Assisted Suicide

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."

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Sisyphus on the golf course

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

A gene therapy is linked to liver failure, but the maker says no to the FDA's request to withdraw it

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Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims, Data Shows

Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims

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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.

Another legendary local institution goes down.

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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).

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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A Doctor Challenged the Opinion of a Powerful Child Abuse Specialist. Then He Lost His Job. A Minneapolis pediatrician said he felt pressured to “fall in line” with child abuse specialist Dr. Nancy Harper and her team. Then he was given a choice: resign or be fired.

21/ Read part one of my investigation about Dr. Nancy Harper, which was published yesterday, here: www.propublica.org/article/chil...

Yesterday, we published a story about Dr. Nancy Harper, a powerful child abuse pediatrician. Here’s Part 2 of my investigation 👇 www.propublica.org/article/chil...
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Thank you!

The Occasional Human Sacrifice <strong>Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers.</strong>, The Occasional Human Sacrifice, Medical Exper...

Today I listened to "The Occasional Human Sacrifice" by @carlelliott.bsky.social, who shows how psychological, social, and institutional factors conspire to suppress action against unethical medical experimentation. Highly recommend

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Opinion: Remembering Bill Moyers NPR's Scott Simon remembers the astonishing career of former White House press secretary and long-time public broadcasting journalist Bill Moyers, who died this week at the age of 91.

Sad to hear of the death of Bill Moyers. One of the greats.

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Opinion | Autism Rates Have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That.

"Why did autism-related diagnoses explode so far beyond what our task force had predicted?"

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University of Minnesota faculty and alumni decry ‘administrative bloat’ despite proposed budget cuts The U’s Board of Regents will vote on the budget on Wednesday, which includes 7% academic budget cuts and 6.5% tuition increases.

The bloat is back.

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This is excellent.

Tyrese Haliburton Has Worn Me Down
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Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody

Finally

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Trump Live Updates: Elon Musk Apology, Pete Hegseth Hearings and More

Fulbright Board Quits After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.

Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

FDA Approved — And Ineffective Federal regulators have authorized hundreds of drugs without evidence they work, and many are dangerous.

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Do Your Drugs Work? A Searchable Database Use this search tool to evaluate the scientific evidence — or lack thereof — behind hundreds of FDA-approved medicines.

Do your drugs work? A new searchable database from The Lever

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In a first, Minnesota doctors walk their own picket line, then hustle to see patients Primary care clinicians hope demonstration will kickstart stalled talks with Allina, especially over pay for paperwork.

In a first, Minnesota doctors walk their own picket line, then hustle to see patients

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YouTube video by Sonny Mackintosh The Gated Community - Goodbye Work

Goodbye Work! Here's the fantastic song that has been running through my head ever since the album launch party last night by The Gated Community.

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OHRP determination letter of June 23, 2023, to NY State Psychiatric Institute is a doozy. Whooping 20 pp.
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A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut Harvard's Scott Delaney helped build a database of NIH grant terminations that is being used in litigation against the Trump administration.

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Record Number of Americans Apply for British Citizenship

A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship in the first three months of this year, and for the right to live and work in Britain indefinitely, according to official data.

Fetus of brain-dead Georgia woman kept alive due to abortion ban is growing, says family Hospital plans to keep Adriana Smith on life support until August, when doctors will deliver baby via C-section

A pregnant brain-dead woman will be kept on a ventilator until a planned c-section in August.

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Twin Cities woman sues Allina Health after wrong organ is removed during surgery The health care system said in a statement that it is reviewing the medical malpractice lawsuit and intends to ‘vigorously defend the care that was provided.’

Wow.

A surgeon removed her kidney instead of her spleen.

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Exactly. Also, what human being with a conscience would agree to put their name on a letter like this? What message does this send to the University of Minnesota faculty?