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Okay then. >From April 1945 to July 1947, 18 men, women, and children were injected with plutonium by doctors working with the Manhattan Project And then...
by Dah00n 3y ago
Okay then.
>From April 1945 to July 1947, 18 men, women, and children were injected with plutonium by doctors working with the Manhattan Project
And then...
>In 1952, Chester M. Southam, a Sloan-Kettering Institute researcher, injected live cancer cells, known as HeLa cells, into prisoners at the Ohio State Penitentiary and cancer patients. Also at Sloan-Kettering, 300 healthy females were injected with live cancer cells without being told. The doctors stated that they knew at the time that it might cause cancer.
And then from 1953...
>Project MKUltra was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), intended to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used in interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.
And yet again....
>In 1963, 22 elderly patients at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, New York City were injected with live cancer cells by Chester M. Southam, who in 1952 had done the same to prisoners at the Ohio State Prison.
There are hundreds of examples that we know of. There's even more than one Wikipedia article full of them.
- soco 3y agoThat is true, my question was however about _actual_ cases, because 1950's USA is not 2020's USA (neither Germany, nor Iran, nor whatever country). Because I'm not arguing bad stuff never happened (or happens), I'm arguing that measures to make this less likely to happen have been and are taken continuously. Are those measures enough though? Without examples I cannot judge in good faith.
- cmmeur01 3y agoOr measures to hid these things have gotten better?
- ComplexSystems 3y agoWho, exactly, "changed" things? Who are enforcing these "measures?" This wasn't an isolated instance of rogue doctors running amok. The same people supposedly setting the standards are the same people doing this stuff to begin with. Are we to assume that one day, they had a big epiphany that killing people is bad, or something?
- robertlagrant 3y agoWhere's the Wikipedia article? It would be good to see some more recent examples, and by a more diverse set of perpetrators.
- Dah00n 3y agoThere's one here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...