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> These things are quite rare in the "medical establishment". The article talks about hundreds of thousands of victims. This was a government-organized crimina
by p-e-w 4y ago
> These things are quite rare in the "medical establishment".
The article talks about hundreds of thousands of victims. This was a government-organized criminal enterprise, not "a few bad apples".
- mrtksn 4y agoSee, this is not about medical establishment doing something, this is about government doing something with cooperation of some medical professionals in an era of low regulations. Governments can run pretty evil programs, you can tell by all the equipment specialised for killing people they purchase.
- digdugdirk 4y agoAnd the parent comment is talking about the current state of the establishment. One which saw its own horrors and took the reins and reformed itself to avoid the possibility of the government pressuring a physician or researcher into performing an experiment like this. It's why drug research and development is slow, and why doctors are hard to access (because why not also limit supply to boost your bottom line while you're at it?) but it also protects society from abuse.
- p-e-w 4y agoIf history is any indication, we will only find out about the full scale of abuses committed by the current establishment a few decades from now. But if you seriously doubt that the US medical establishment of today is capable of committing horrifying human rights abuses, I suggest you read up on the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center[1], which has been condemned for practicing torture by the United Nations as recently as 2013. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Rotenberg_Educational_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Rotenberg_Educational_Ce...
- m_mueller 4y agoreading this made me physically ill, especially being a father...