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...notion that his purpose in this world was to do God’s work, namely destroying demons and expelling them from the earth. Hence, he was the original “God’s Hand.” Angels in hallucinations visit Dad during the day to inform him of the next targets, and armed with a divinely supplied axe, lead pipe and garden gloves, he dispatches his victims and buries them in the rose garden of a neighbouring church. Worst of all, Dad enlists the aid of his sons Fenton and Adam and forces them to watch...
Harvard undergraduates already know about the services and businesses available to them in the Square; they surely do not need a council “endorsement” to inform them. The council ought to have more serious priorities...
...same reason, the University ought to give close scrutiny to any research done under its auspices. It was troubling last week to hear that a genetics study recently undertaken by a Harvard School of Public Health researcher in rural China did not properly inform the subjects of their rights. It was even more disturbing that a federal agency concluded that the School of Public Health’s internal review board failed to provide “substantive and meaningful” oversight of a project for which the University received research money...
...failure to inform human subjects of their rights is unpardonable. The convoluted legal terms of the consent forms, said some peasants, were far too complicated for them to understand. Sometimes the forms were only provided months after the actual research took place, showing blatant disregard for the ethical standard of informed consent. “Information must be presented to enable persons to voluntarily decide whether or not to participate as a research subject,” stipulates the Office for Human Research Protections of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. There is no excuse for these standards...
...problems patients may have with individual clinicians, Cannon says that she works as directly as possible with the staff to both inform them of complaints and maintain patient confidentiality...