YOU MUST READ THIS!

Here is the link to the full transcript on tonight's show:
http://www.cbc.ca/national/news/chandra/

There is a Part 2 that will be aired on Tuesday night.

Summary (provided by Maureen Fjeld):

CBC The National (on CBC or the news network) - exposes the research work
done by Dr. Chandra from Nfld - and how without data and research, he has
published in several key journals and is known as an international speaker
on allergy and immunology - basically funded by Nestle and Mead Johnson to
do research to substantiate the term hypoallergenic formula for marketing
purposes. Academic fraud that could not be proven but CBC has essentially
exposed this issue - quite amazing!! Will be on again on the National CBC
news tonight, and Part II is tomorrow night - Tuesday Jan 31


(BTW, my husband has always thought I was being a bit of a conspiracy
theorist about this stuff.  He really believes in science and process of
publishing research.  After watching this tonight, he admitted that the CBC
was saying all the things that I've been trying to tell him all along, and
that he would have to eat some crow!
Janice Reynolds)




Partial Excerpt (see link above for full transcipt)

Chandra's research nurse at the time was Marilyn Harvey. It would be her job
to find 288 newborns whose parents were prone to allergies who were willing
to take part in the Ross study. Finding that many allergy-prone babies in a
city the size of St. John's was not easy.

"It took basically all my time," Harvey says. "If I worked 40 hours a week,
it would also take my time in the evening and sometimes at night, like I
always felt I was on call for 24-7 for two years or even more."

Around the same time, food giant Nestle introduced the new formula Good
Start to the North American market. The product was supposed to help reduce
the risk to some infants of developing allergies.

The company was under increasing pressure from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration to prove those claims. Nestle had hired Chandra to
scientifically test their product, but as the pressure on the company
mounted in late 1988, Chandra was just in the early stages of conducting
that study.

By the following summer, Harvey had recruited only a handful of subjects, so
she was shocked when she came across the already published results of the
Nestle study.

"I would say there was only probably one-quarter of the patients even
recruited in this study," Harvey says. "And he had all of the data analyzed
and published even before we had even had the data collected!"

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