Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital. Full Story »
Posted by Jon Mitchell
The story does a good job of detailing some creepy institutionalized medical experiments on human "patients" who have somehow been relegated to a sub-human status by those conducting the experiments.
the appalling experiment(link provided) of the U.S. Navy spreading pathological bacteria over San Francisco and in the New York City subway system well into the 1960s further confirms the need for greater oversight of loose cannon agencies/institutions.
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A chronological look at not only a sinister practice but also US civil attitudes and journalism and news circulation. I would have expected to hear of Pfizers suppression in the Nigerian investigation and about their ongoing support for Intelectural property rights which is arguably funded from the public. In addition, mental health experiments funded by the pentagon as discussed in Naormi Klein's Shock Doctrine would reinforce the extractive attitudes of the time.
Human testing is not new, true. But a good journalist never ceases to reveal the whole story, even 50 years after the fact.
Well written, however an article repetitive of well known facts. No links to support the evidence of the article.
Human testing is something we've known for years, why write about something we already know? Glad to read about further discoveries but human testing is still human testing. Give us links to show where you found this "new" nformation.
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