Minnesota Legislature Must Hold Hearings on Psychiatric Research Misconduct
Publisher
MinnPost
Date
2015-4-28
As scholars of health law, bioethics and medicine, we are calling on the Minnesota Legislature to conduct public hearings on psychiatric research misconduct at the University of Minnesota.
Two reports issued in the last five weeks have exposed serious flaws in the University of Minnesota’s system for protecting human subjects of research. When systems fail, the appropriate response is to admit to the problem and to work hard to fix it. The report by Minnesota's Legislative Auditor [PDF], focusing on the tragic suicide of Dan Markingson in an industry-sponsored psychiatric drug trial, describes how university leaders have denied and covered up these flaws for the past 10 years.
Citation
Raymond DeVries et al., Minnesota Legislature Must Hold Hearings on Psychiatric Research Misconduct, MinnPost (April 28, 2015).