Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #Motherisk
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"A controversy..which raises uncomfortable questions about the influence of funding from #BigPharma in...Toronto health institutions" - which Dr. Brenda Gallie & I struggled to expose for years
thestar.com/news/investiga…
#Pharma #PatientSafety
👏🙏 @rachelmendleson @TorontoStar
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thestar.com/news/investiga…
#Pharma #PatientSafety
👏🙏 @rachelmendleson @TorontoStar
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A long struggle
-2009: @UHN expands use of *unlicensed* drug w/out evidence of #InformedConsent obtained from patients
-2019: UHN conducts a conflicted, internal, confidential 'review' which: "if your aim was to rig the result, is exactly what you would do"
🎯@FearLoathingBTX
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-2009: @UHN expands use of *unlicensed* drug w/out evidence of #InformedConsent obtained from patients
-2019: UHN conducts a conflicted, internal, confidential 'review' which: "if your aim was to rig the result, is exactly what you would do"
🎯@FearLoathingBTX
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How can @UHN claim "appropriate safe care"? During exposure to this *unlicensed* drug over years:
1- Iron levels rose in 50% over the threshold for death
2- 65% patients developed liver injury
3- 17% acquired diabetes
And again, *no informed consent*
thestar.com/news/investiga…
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1- Iron levels rose in 50% over the threshold for death
2- 65% patients developed liver injury
3- 17% acquired diabetes
And again, *no informed consent*
thestar.com/news/investiga…
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🔥podcast on Pharma billionaire Barry Sherman.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1…
As @kathleengoldhar @blandrea outline: this wasn't just about a violent death, but the consequences of #Pharma "partnering" with academia.
🧵on why this matters to any who may ever need a prescription drug.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1…
As @kathleengoldhar @blandrea outline: this wasn't just about a violent death, but the consequences of #Pharma "partnering" with academia.
🧵on why this matters to any who may ever need a prescription drug.
"Barry Sherman is the only person I have ever met with no redeeming features whatsoever":
🎯Dr. Morton Shulman in macleans.ca/news/canada/ba…
But this was not just a matter of an abrasive personality.
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🎯Dr. Morton Shulman in macleans.ca/news/canada/ba…
But this was not just a matter of an abrasive personality.
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In 1996, I identified problems in the safety of a drug in a clinical trial of *children*, a trial to which Sherman had provided minor funds to obtain patent rights.
He threatened 'all legal remedies' if I published.
I published anyway.
Decades of litigation were to follow.
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He threatened 'all legal remedies' if I published.
I published anyway.
Decades of litigation were to follow.
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In addition to its terrible injustice, this grim story may be of special interest to #Motherisk families (speaking of #accountability):
Broadwater was convicted on two pieces of evidence: Sebold's account; and a now-debunked #hair analysis: cnn.com/2021/11/24/us/…
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Broadwater was convicted on two pieces of evidence: Sebold's account; and a now-debunked #hair analysis: cnn.com/2021/11/24/us/…
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#Motherisk families were destroyed because #SickKids idol Dr Gideon Koren was believed about #hair samples arising from his allegedly "forensic" analysis.
Indeed, he was believed for a very long time.
thestar.com/news/crime/201…
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Indeed, he was believed for a very long time.
thestar.com/news/crime/201…
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Indeed US courts recognized "extensive problems with how hair-strand tests were done at #SickKids, *two decades* before similar issues were uncovered in Canada”: preventionconversation.org/2017/10/22/fif…
Were there consequences to Koren's #misconduct? Or #accountability?
Unsurprisingly, no.
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Were there consequences to Koren's #misconduct? Or #accountability?
Unsurprisingly, no.
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More on Toronto #SIckKids MD who, while destroying #Motherisk families, was praised - after proven research misconduct - for his "publication output, unmatched at @uofTmedicine." #WhatWeValue
@ForBetterSci
retractionwatch.com/2021/10/29/rep…
🙏@ivanoransky @RetractionWatch
ICYMI...
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@ForBetterSci
retractionwatch.com/2021/10/29/rep…
🙏@ivanoransky @RetractionWatch
ICYMI...
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Brilliant comprehensive analysis🙏 Leonid Schneider:
forbetterscience.com/2020/06/29/mot…
But...did we miss the public report on "the vast body of work" by #SickKids and #Motherisk doc Koren (who was the object of fulsome praise from Dean of @uoftmedicine for his "research output")?....
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forbetterscience.com/2020/06/29/mot…
But...did we miss the public report on "the vast body of work" by #SickKids and #Motherisk doc Koren (who was the object of fulsome praise from Dean of @uoftmedicine for his "research output")?....
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#SickKids has promised a “systematic exam” of Koren’s papers to “protect the integrity of the existing medical literature.”
@UofT assured the public it would 'take appropriate actions’ if findings involved individuals at U of T”. Nearly 3 years ago.
thestar.com/news/investiga…
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@UofT assured the public it would 'take appropriate actions’ if findings involved individuals at U of T”. Nearly 3 years ago.
thestar.com/news/investiga…
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Even after proven misconduct, researchers can always find another academic position: retractionwatch.com/2021/10/28/exc… @RetractionWatch
Familiar story, if one hails from Toronto...
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Familiar story, if one hails from Toronto...
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Recovery is possible after more than research misconduct. Koren's #Motherisk lab made million$ selling unverified hair tests, tearing apart vulnerable families, prompting two govt-commissioned inquiries
retractionwatch.com/2019/02/19/con…
Unlike Motherisk families, Koren has thrived...
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retractionwatch.com/2019/02/19/con…
Unlike Motherisk families, Koren has thrived...
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"Gideon Koren: so toxic that he had to surrender his medical licence and flee Canada... is Professor at the Adelson Medical School at Ariel University."
🙏 Prof Leonid Schneider
forbetterscience.com/2020/06/29/mot…
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🙏 Prof Leonid Schneider
forbetterscience.com/2020/06/29/mot…
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