I appreciate you posting that snippet from Cantor's writing. It is quintessential, real-life, doublespeak. What he is saying, if translated to plain English, is that the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has no ethics. If the Research Ethics Board of CAMH approves of the use of data from involuntary procedures, and collects "consent" from people who are under extreme duress, they should rightly be renamed the Board of Unethical Research. I suppose comparison to Josef Mengele or other Nazi doctors are a bit much. Still, I suspect that one day, such comparisons may be made -- if not with reference to the scale or degree of atrocity committed, then at least with regard to the quality and reliability of work and the degree of total ethical lapse. Checking up on some details, I looked at Wikipedia. The article there on CAMH mentions money rather a lot. It made me think of Jessy. It turns out they have, altogether (including all types of mental health and addiction related programs) 100 "scientists" and 150 trainees. They raked in over $44 million CDN in research funding in 2014-2015 fiscal year and published 500 papers. There are also several mentions of what I would call corruption in the article. I'm pretty sure that many scientists around the world would be ashamed to have the term "science" associated with the kind of research that Cantor does. sg -=- |