From The Minnesota Star Tribune by Carl Elliot. “For over six years, I and a group of colleagues tried to get an investigation into the death of Dan Markingson, a mentally ill young man who committed suicide in 2004 after being pressured into a deeply flawed psychiatric drug study over the repeated objections of his mother.
Our efforts were blocked at every turn by university administrators. It was only after former Gov. Arne Carlson began speaking out about the case that the state Legislature asked the Office of the Legislative Auditor to investigate. When the office released its scathing report on the scandal in 2015, it noted that it was “especially troubled” by the misleading public statements issued by university leaders and their refusal to acknowledge that the case involved grave ethical issues.”
