NEWS AND REVIEWS
★ Starred pre-publication review, Kirkus Review
★ Starred pre-publication review, Publisher’s Weekly
“In medicine, the morally unthinkable too easily comes to seem normal,” by Carl Elliott, New York Times, May 7 2024
“Why whistleblowers in medicine are so few and justice for the harmed so elusive,” conversation with Carl Elliott and Oliver Eggers, The Boston Globe, May 8 2024
“University of Minnesota professor's book investigates shocking medical research abuse,” conversation with Carl Elliott and Chris Hewitt, Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 8, 2024
“The unexpected plight of whistleblowers,” by Emily Beitiks, Center for Genetics and Society, May 10, 2024
“Conformity, power, and blowing the whistle on medical abuse,” NPR’s 1A podcast, May 13, 2024
“The whistleblowers: A bioethicist probes the costs of exposing wrongdoing in medical research,” by C. Fred Alford, Science, May 16, 2024.
“Why does medicine shoot the messenger with things go wrong?” A webinar conversation with Carl Elliott and Nancy Olivieri, Center for Free Expression, May 15 2024.
“How the Karolinska protected Paolo Macchiarini — and whistleblowers paid the price,” excerpt from The Occasional Human Sacrifice, Retraction Watch, May 17, 2024.
“Carl Elliott, in ‘The Occasional Human Sacrifice,’ champions the whistleblowers of academic medicine,” review by Elizabeth Rupert Schell, The Boston Globe, May 21, 2024
“Deep and fascinating insights into whistleblowing,” review by Richard Smith, BMJ (British Medical Journal), May 22, 2024.
“The Occasional Human Sacrifice: A testament to moral courage,” review by J. Wesley Boyd, The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, May 21 2024
“Carl Elliott, in The Occasional Human Sacrifice, champions the whistleblowers of academic medicine,” review by Ellen Ruppel Shell, The Boston Globe, May 21 2024
“Blowing the Whistle on Medical Research,” KQED Forum, in conversation with Alexis Madrigal, May 28, 2024
“Truth and Consequences for Medical Whistleblowers,” review by Elizabeth Svoboda, Undark, June 7, 2024.
“The Moral Psychology of the Whistleblower,” review by Ronald W. Dworkin, Law and Liberty, June 10, 2024
“The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” interview with Claire Clark, New Books Network, June 12, 2024
“The toll of truth: What happens when you expose medical wrongdoing?” interview by Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon, June 20, 2024.
“What's the cost of being a whistleblower? Author Carl Elliott knows,” interview on “Charlotte Talks,” WFAE, July 8, 2024
“The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” review by Carolyn Chapman in The Journal of Medical Humanities, July 21, 2004
“The High Cost of Medical Whistleblowing,” interview with Euan Kerr, MPR News, June 27, 2024.
“The Occasional Human Sacrifice: A Conversation with Carl Elliott,” Health Ethics Podcast, July 23, 2024
"Commendable Snitches,” review by Gordon Marino, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2, 2024.
“Our Medical System Protects Wrongdoers and Punishes Whistleblowers: An Interview with Carl Elliott,” Mad in America podcast, August 7, 2024.
“The dark history of abuse in medical research,” The Economist, August 8, 2024
“Consider the finches: Books in brief, Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks, Nature, September 9, 2024
“Abusive medical research, whistleblowers, and institutional power,” Jeremy Greene, The Lancet, September 21, 2024
The Occasional Human Sacrifice (review), The Whistle (Newsletter of Whistleblowers Australia), No. 120, October 2024, pp. 4-5
The Occasional Human Sacrifice (review), The Intima, October 2, 2024
“Carl Elliott on whistleblowers,” Searching for Medicine’s Soul (podcast), October 10, 2024
The Occasional Human Sacrifice (review), Family Medicine, October 21, 2024
“The Whistleblower’s Gamble” (review essay), Allen Hornblum, The Hedgehog Review, Fall 2024
“Conversation with Carl Elliott,” (video), U.S. Library of Congress, July 20, 2024