False Hope and Forgotten Wounds

False Hope and Forgotten Wounds

This story really shook me. I used to work with brain-injured people, and one of my dearest friends was a paraplegic. He could drive, and we’d go places together — I’d help push his chair, but I always worried about the sores on his back. Even then, 35 or 40 years ago, bedsores were a painful, dangerous problem.

What breaks my heart is that decades later, with all our so-called medical “advancements” and billions spent by Big Pharma, people are still suffering the same way.

Now I read that a UBC researcher fabricated data and gave spinal patients false hope. That’s beyond unethical — it’s cruel. To play with people’s hope when they’ve already lost so much physically and emotionally… it’s unforgivable.

These are real people, not lab numbers. They live with daily pain, courage, and dignity that many of us can’t imagine. They deserve honesty and real compassion — not lies dressed up as science.

🔗 CBC News: Investigation found UBC researcher fabricated data, gave spinal patients 'false hope.'