Bodyhack: new Wired blog on medical weirdness

Xeni Jardin 12:35 pm Sat Oct 14, 2006

India-based blogger and journalist Scott Carney says he will co-author the new Wired News blog Bodyhack "to up the publicity on the open source investigation on the one eyed baby," among other things.

He tells BoingBoing, "Now with a little editorial backing behind me, I hope to be able to get bloggers to send in their tips about unethical pharma trials, all manner of medical foibles, and, of course, infant cyclopses."

Background: Scott broke the story of the one-eyed baby girl born to a mother in Chennai, India (BB posts: 1, 2). The child died. When Scott continued to pursue the cause for the baby's condition — possibly a fertility drug clinical trial gone horribly wrong — the hospital and other authorities cut him off.

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