hey kids want to go to giga-scientology summer camp where you get locked in a dark room listening to your own brain waves? if you do this enough you can levitate btw. This is some beyond the black rainbow shit god damn
In an interview with CBC, James Hardt freely acknowledged the study was not subjected to ethical review. He claimed that process was unnecessary because the study was done by a private company.
An ethics review “would likely only be required if the study was going to operate under university auspices," he said. "It wasn’t done through a university. It was done through Biocybernaut.”
Hoption Cann said Hardt is “certainly misinformed.”
“Private companies can’t just do unapproved research. They definitely need ethics board approval,” he said.
According to an email from Health Canada, “all clinical trials must have Research Ethics Board approval.” It added, “there are no exceptions for private companies.”
Hoption Cann said because Hardt makes health claims about his neurofeedback technology, the researchers should have consulted Health Canada.
USian treat demon simply assumes private company can do whatever the fuck they want with Indigenous kids, proceeds
Do you think there are companies behaving similarly in the US? Oversight is trash in a lot of places. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear about something like this happening here in rural Ohio.
WAIT HOLY FUCK IT GETS BETTER
THERE WAS TRUST IN PLACE BECAUSE A PROMINENT INDIGENOUS SCHOLAR WAS INVOLVED
AND THEN
A decade ago, Bourassa was a professor at First Nations University. She was considered to be a leading Indigenous scholar and a rising star in academia.
In 2013, she partnered with Hardt to submit the ethics application to the University of Regina. The U of R reviews all ethics applications for First Nations University because it is a federated college of the U of R.
“If you’re an Indigenous person, why would you think it would be OK to do research like this?” LaVallee said.
In 2017, shortly after the study concluded, Bourassa was appointed the scientific director of the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), which funds much of the Indigenous health research in the country.
In 2021, a CBC investigation found no evidence to support Bourassa’s claims to Indigenous ancestry. She was immediately suspended from her role at CIHR and was dismissed weeks after the story broke.
THIS STORY HAS EVERYTHING HOLY FUCK
It really does have everything - you wouldn’t need to embellish anything to make a horror movie from it, just one terrifying reveal after another, until you end with traumatized kids having grown into traumatized adults and nobody cares.
It sounds very A24.
[Hardt] told CBC his work in Canada has led him to believe that many Indigenous people have suffered “more profound post-traumatic stress disorder than returning war veterans.”
broken clock, I guess
Alma Stonestand said she was hesitant when CBC first reached out for an interview, because there were so many powerful people involved in the study. But she said she now hopes to get some answers and accountability.
“They take advantage of these kids’ minds to use them for their own study, to use them for their own purposes, with empty promises of things that they couldn’t give them,” said Stonestand.
“That was offensive that they came and played with all these kids’ minds.”
It is evidence of the trauma done to her by the powerful her entire fucking life that she doesn’t feel comfortable publicly calling it anything worse than offensive.
From the moment Alma Stonestand heard about Biocybernaut’s 7-Day Alpha Brain Wave Training, she was skeptical.
Yeah I’m pretty fucking skeptical too
