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Carl Elliott
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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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brookswalsh.bsky.social
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...
By 2016, a deputy editor of the Annals of Emergency Medicine could compare agitated patients to “wild beasts” and write, “Let’s take ’em down with a ketamine blow dart.”5 But is this crazy? There is ample precedent for taking down beasts in the wild with ketamine. Remember those nature shows in which biologists shoot tranquilizer darts into rhinos or lions or polar bears? It should be no surprise that ketamine has been and continues to be the most common ingredient in such animal blow darts.3 So why not treat people—when the situation requires it—like wild beasts? But with intramuscular ketamine injection rather than an actual blow dart rifle. We all know from our procedural sedation practice that ketamine has rapid onset after intramuscular injection (usually 2 to 5 minutes) and that immobilization and cardiorespiratory stability are key features of the resulting trancelike dissociative state.4 Isn’t this the ideal formula for “taking down” a wild beast of a patient?
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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cave-malum.bsky.social
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)
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.
www.thetransmitter.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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cave-malum.bsky.social
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.
www.dcscience.net
October 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM