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> There's a reason the field's golden age was in the 1940s and 1950s Yes, that was because of things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_expe
by tremon 3mo ago
> There's a reason the field's golden age was in the 1940s and 1950s
Yes, that was because of things like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateville_Penitentiary_Malaria_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateville_Penitentiary_Malari...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
I understand that certain people are salivating at the thought of a return to those times; I'm not one of them.
- smalltorch 3mo ago>Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco would be to a bioweapon attack. There has been speculation that the experiment may have contributed to one death and at least ten illnesses. Wow.
- estearum 3mo agoAlso, despite GP's dismissal of the "low-hanging fruit" hypothesis, it is obviously true that we've found the easy-to-discover drugs, and therefore drugs would get harder and harder to find. A flippant dismissal in an HN comment does not actually negate reality.