Commentary “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” — Albert Einstein Dr. Stanley Weber worked for the Indian Health Service as a pediatrician for more than two decades. He was assigned to reservation facilities in both Montana and South Dakota. He also worked in New Mexico for a time. In 1995, three years into his Montana service, a supervisor suspected that the unmarried doctor, who hoarded children’s toys in his basement, was a pedophile, and dismissed Weber from his position at a Browning, Montana hospital. But the IHS didn’t fire Weber. Bosses quietly transferred him to a facility in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, where he treated children for another 21 years. Only after a joint PBS/Wall Street Journal expose on Weber did the IHS commission an independent investigation into the …
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