Shaw's Eco-Logic

This HND piece gives a summary of the criminally botched case of psychiatric patient Dan Markingson—at the hands of the University of Minnesota. This acutely psychotic patient was wrongly placed on a clinical trial, and—despite protestations from his mother that he was suicidal—killed himself with a box cutter to the throat.

If you think that a corpse, lying nearly decapitated in a bathroom, would trigger an investigation by the U, you are quite mistaken.

What makes this story so awful is that despite all sorts of misdeeds by the researchers and the drug company involved, it is just business as usual. The good news is that an army of folks is moving against the U, and maybe the putrid mess that is our clinical trials system could change.

Read the complete article.