Follow-up: Texas lawmakers want to know why state paid $2.2 million for flawed PTSD research on vets

[TexasTowelie]

Texas lawmakers are saying they’d like to know why a state agency spent $2 million for a flawed research project on veterans with PTSD.

But the head of the Health and Human Services Commission says that would be tough. Many people involved with funding the research – which included spinning combat veterans in a chair to stimulate their brains – no longer work at the agency.

That makes “a comprehensive timeline difficult to recreate,” Chris Traylor, executive commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, wrote in a letter responding to one lawmaker’s questions. The agency also gave him hundreds of pages of documents previously requested by The Dallas Morning News and KXAS-TV (NBC5) as part of their five-month investigation into the research.

That didn’t sit well with Rep. Chris Turner, D-Grand Prairie, who now wants an internal investigation.

Read more: http://watchdogblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/texas-lawmakers-want-to-know-why-state-paid-2-2-million-for-flawed-ptsd-research-on-vets.html/?hootPostID=bf32327b7a3e9c4c37f4fe2cab25ee70

Earlier thread:
Texas taxpayers pay to spin vets in chair - Experts say $2.2 million paid for shoddy PTSD research September 23, 2015

[niyad]

1. colour me sooooo not surprised.

[DhhD]

2. Maybe someone can review the camera footage from inside and around the salon.

Surly the veterans are going to come forward about the services they received.

Research always has a report or finding. Where is it and who is responsible for its release?