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GLOBAL NEWS FORMER PFIZER ASSOCIATE CHARGED WITH FRAUD NANOTECHNOLOGY MAY TAP INTO YOUR MIND ONE IN FOUR GERMANS HAPPY ABOUT MICROCHIPS r Scott S. Reuben, a former member of Pfizer Inc.'s speakers’ bureau accused last year of perpetrating one of the biggest research frauds in medical history, was charged in a federal court in Boston with falsifying medical research studies. Reuben, formerly chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, faces up to 10 years in prison and a USS$250,000 fine. US attorney Carmen M. Ortiz accused Reuben of accepting a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to research the effectiveness of pain medication Celebrex® for a 2005 study in which no patients were actually enrolled. Prosecutors allege that Reuben made up the data, which he subsequently had published in the medical journal Anesthesia & Analgesia. The journal later had to retract 10 papers written by Reuben, and medical experts at the time said that at least 21 journal articles by the anaesthesiologist appeared to be fabricated. (Source: TheDay.com, 15 January 2010, Attp://tinyurl.com/ykr7oaaq; also see Global News, NEXUS 16/04) Tiscommunications researchers in Japan are attempting to create electronic sensors that can not only receive information from the brain, but could manipulate our neural pathways. The new sensors, built using nanotechnology, could read and write information directly into he brain. While the concept might conjure images of half-human, half-machine cyborgs, Dr Keiichi Torimitsu of ippon Telegraph and Telephone NTT) said the research is more ikely to help sufferers of Parkinson's disease and stroke. Torimitsu presented his team's work on the development of bionic, or biomimetic, brain sensors at this week's International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN) in Sydney. "To develop some kind of devices or interfaces with the brain that would make it possible to transmit our information, sending it through the telecommunication pathways to another person or device such as a computer—that is the goal," said Torimitsu, who heads NTT's Molecular and Bioscience Group. (Source: Discovery.com, 25 February 2010, http://tinyurl.com/yl8hkfr) Awe poll has revealed that nearly one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body. The survey, by German IT industry lobby group BITKOM, was intended to show how the division between real life and the virtual world is increasingly coming down. In all, 23 per cent of around 1,000 respondents in the survey said they would be prepared to have a chip inserted under their skin "for certain benefits”. (Source: Sydney Morning Herald, 2 March 2o10, http://tinyurl.com/y bqgs62) FRENCH BREAD SPIKED WITH LSD IN CIA EXPERIMENT oO 16 August 1951, the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, a quiet, picturesque village in the Gard region of southeastern France, were suddenly racked with frightful hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds were afflicted. For decades it was assumed that he local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, the American investigative journalist H. P. Albarelli, t, has uncovered evidence suggesting hat the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind-control experiment at he height of the Cold War. One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried o strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted "I am a plane" before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs; he then got up and carried on for 50 yards ~46 metres]. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet, and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in straitjackets. we 8 * NEXUS APRIL - MAY 2010 "Just not quite the same since they digitised sunsets." www.nexusmagazine.com