The National Institutes of Health yesterday fulfilled my Freedom of Information Act request and supplied five documents of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s multimillion-dollar grant application and progress reports on concussion research for the period 2001-06.
I want to thank FOIA official Earl Blansfield and the staff at NIH. While I was being about as big a public pain in the ass as a public pain in the ass can be, they completed their task with the utmost professionalism and courtesy.
This is a very big story with a very long tail. I’m going to start by simply posting the documents. I encourage readers who are more experienced at reading and interpreting these kinds of things to send their insights and suggestions to [email protected].
Here are the links:
http://muchnick.net/upmcgrantyr1.pdf
http://muchnick.net/upmcgrantyr2.pdf
http://muchnick.net/upmcgrantyr3.pdf
http://muchnick.net/upmcgrantyr4.pdf
http://muchnick.net/upmcgrantyr5.pdf
Some quick first notes:
Irv Muchnick
The second title in the Concussion Inc. ebook short series, UPMC: Concussion Scandal Ground Zero, will be published next month. For information on how to order UPMC and our first ebook, DUERSON, see https://concussioninc.net/?p=5002.