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Cummings signed, was formally diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, and says he spent the next five years in an experiment with a powerful antipsychotic drug. He suffered bad side effects: partial blindness, impotence, constant migraines. He says the researchers at the VA never allowed him to see an eye doctor and...
Most of the country's 2.3 million VA patients are poor or mentally ill. And over the decades, many have signed up for experiments after doctors suggested that it was the only way they could receive meaningful help. Now, however, those methods of obtaining recruits for psychiatric experiments are undergoing...
In 1992 Baltimore's new school superintendent, Walter Amprey, proposed a novel way of dealing with the problems at Harlem Park and eight other city schools: let someone else run them. Amprey proposed giving a five-year, $125- million contract to Education Alternatives, Inc., a Minneapolis, Minnesota, ! corporation that operated...
"The phone has been ringing off the book," Steeg said. "Labs around the world are probably repeating the experiment."
"I think it might be a good experiment for Bennington, because Bennington has always emphasized the creative profile," Ryan said. "I can't imagine that it would be effective for us.... Obviously the scholarly perspective is an important one. A university like Harvard would be particularly foolish to abandon the...