Student paper: Regents play innocent in student suicide
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The Minnesota Daily chastises the University of Minnesota Board of Regents for dismissing eight bioethicists's call for an independent investigation into the suicide of Dan Markingson, a U student who participated in a U of M psychiatric research study:
The University seems to think that because it was not held liable in court for Markingson’s death, it did nothing wrong. This is false; it is a cynical excuse to keep corporate drug money flowing into the University.
The regents’ decision fundamentally undermines our mission: Supposedly, the University is “dedicated to … the search for truth.” But the letter makes it clear that corporate research cash is more important to the University than patient safety and transparency.
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