It has happened once too often -- federal bureaucrats atop huge mounds of cash creating sham research projects for their colleagues in exchange for pre-cooked results. Such is the path of the National Institute for Dental Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). To create reports ratifying their pro-mercury fillings agenda, NIDCR handpicks only unqualified or biased academicians.
So we have filed a complaint with the Inspector-General, the independent investigative arm of the Department of Health and Human Services, against NIDCR Director Lawrence Tabak and his agency.
Lawrence Tabak, DDS, is a puppet for the American Dental Association, an avowed advocate of implanting mercury into the mouths of the children of America. Tabak engineered the notorious deal with meetings planner BETAH and tobacco consultant LSRO to do a sham literature review; LSRO inverted the research question so the answer could be to Tabak’s liking. Worse, Tabak praises the dreadful mercury experiment on the Portuguese orphans, even though the boy-victims will likely spend their lives mercury toxic. Tabak’s approval of implanting mercury helpless institutionalized children, without providing any information about the health risks (the finding of the U.S. Office of Human Research Protections), rivals the Tuskegee experiment on African-American men in the previous century in its moral depravity.
This time, Tabak has handed a bloated $3 million contract to a junior dental school professor at the University of Rochester to do a neurological study -- yes, a dentist put in charge of a neurological study. The lucky dentist receiving these fat checks is using a flawed methodology -- hair samples -- apparently so his report can ratify the Tabak pro-mercury position.
It’s time Tabak be stopped in his doling out federal money for agenda-driven results. We have also written NIH Director Elias Zerhouni asking that he block money for the University of Rochester boondoggle at once. We conveyed similar demands to the president of the University of Rochester.
Consumers for Dental Choice wants to put a stop to multi-million dollar pre-cooked reports by the federal government’s in-house promoters of mercury fillings. Would you help? Write the United States Inspector-General, hhsTips@oig.hhs.gov; ask that he stop the pattern of corruption at NIH’s dental arm and stop Lawrence Tabak from handing out millions of dollars to get pre-cooked results.
Charlie Brown, 6 December 2007
Charles G. Brown, National Counsel
Consumers for Dental Choice
316 F St., N.E., Suite 210 , Washington, DC 20002
Ph. 202.544-6333; fax 544-6331
charlie@toxicteeth.org, www.toxicteeth.org
