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 A Brief History of Human Experiments
There are many more black marks in our American history than the recentabuse at Abu Ghraib prison. Far too many.
 
Sadly, many of them are perfectly legal.
 
Did you know that your government has the right to experiment on you withoutyour knowing it? I’m not sure whether this has been tested before the SupremeCourt, mainly because we don’t know about it while it is occurring and weusually find out after the participants are all dead. So who’s left to findrecourse?
 
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAM
 
"The use of human subjects will be allowed for the testing of chemical and biological agents bythe U.S. Department of Defense, accounting to Congressional committees with respect to theexperiments and studies."
 
"The Secretary of Defense [may] conduct tests and experiments involving the use of chemicaland biological [warfare] agents on civilian populations [within the United States]."
 
SOURCEPublic Law 95-79, Title VIII, Sec. 808, July 30, 1977, 91 Stat. 334.In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 91, page 334, you will find Public Law 95-79.Public Law 97-375, title II, Sec. 203(a)(1), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1882.In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 96, page 1882, you will find Public Law 97-375.
 
We have to thank our volunteer researcher Rick Ensminger for providing allthis information for us. He sure put in a lot of time compiling this. And Rick,like many others, believes that our entire medical system in this country is onebig experiment. Again, you should read theHistory of Quackeryand visit ourpages Medical Fraud. As we pointed out in the article theHistory of Quackery,in 1978, the Office of Technology Assessment published a report that only 10to 20% of all medical procedures in use at that time (and currently) have beenshown by controlled experiments to be effective. They also state that nearlyhalf of those procedures that had been studies, were not studied properly; thestudies were, in fact, deeply flawed. You will find this entire publicationonline: Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies.[http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1978/7805_n.html].
 
 
What prompted both Rick and I to focus on this particular subject were twostories he’d discovered. The first is located at:http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020422/poisons.htmlTo summarize the article, dozens of Nebraskan college students in 1998responded to an ad in their school newspaper claiming they could "earn extramoney" by volunteering for a study. They were handed a 7 page consent form(which none read) and got a bottle of pills to take home.
 
The pills were made by Dow chemical. The trial was to prove that their toproach killing ingredient in Raid (chlorpyrifos) was safe.
 
Yes, these college students were ingesting pesticides for the Dow ChemicalCorporation. Oh yes, and earning $460.00.
 
From the article:
 
Since 1997 pesticide makers have submitted more than a dozen human studies to the EPA. Whathas never been established, however, is whether it is acceptable—legally or ethically—to conductclinical trials that offer no potential benefit to participants (other than monetary gain) and couldend up harming individuals in the name of public health.
 
And:
 
Meanwhile, chemical companies could still be quietly conducting human trials. "There's no tellingbecause there's no system for tracking studies that aren't federally funded," says Ken Cook,president of the Environmental Working Group, which opposes the pesticide tests. "There's noprotocol on how they should be conducted. We're talking about the wild, wild West here."
 
The other article came from here:http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1808.htmThis is an amazing article. The head of a pharmaceutical company, ProfessorDavid Horrobin, came down with cancer and instead of using the drugs hiscompany and many others have made for cancer, he opted for alternatives thatare considered quackery by mainstream medicine. In the article, Dr Horrobincomes clean: "Drug trials are pointless…and unethical." He goes on to say thatvolunteers have little chance of recovery.
 
This article is a must read. We are saving it here just in case it is ever removedfrom the web.
 
Before we begin listing our brief history of human experiments, please notethat not all experiments on human beings are conducted without their informedconsent, nor are they particularly harmful. Behaviorists would know very littlewithout conducting human experiments. Some of the experiments we’ve listedbelow are monumental experiments, but some, sadly, are stupid, cruel, andsenseless.
 
 
Hippocrates lived in the fifth century B.C. and is considered the Father of Medicine and the Father of Medical Ethics. He established the ethics and rulesby which a physician must guide his practice, hence, the Hippocratic Oath.Though NOT in the oath, Hippocrates taught his students that the FIRST lawby which all physicians must be guided is:
"Primum non nocere."
 
Or in English (you will find it on our home page) it goes: "First do no harm."
 
1718
 
George I offers free pardon to any inmate of Newgate Prison whoagrees to be inoculated with infectious small pox in variolationexperiment. You can read about this in one of our history articles,in the section:The History of Innoculation.1796
 
Edward Jenner injects healthy eight-year-old James Phillips firstwith cowpox then three months later with smallpox and is hailedas discoverer of smallpox vaccine.
 
1845-1849
 
J. Marion Sims, the "Father of Gynecology" in the United States,conducts gynecological experiments on slaves in South Carolina.You can read more onDr Simsin ourBiographies. 1865
 
French physiologistClaude Bernardpublishes "Introduction to theStudy of Human Experimentation," advising: "Never perform anexperiment which might be harmful to the patient even thoughhighly advantageous to science or the health of others.
 
1874
 
Cincinnati physician Roberts Bartholow conducts brain surgeryexperiments on Mary Rafferty, a 30 year-old domestic servantdying of an infected ulcer.
 
1891
 
Prussian State legislates that a treatment for tuberculosis cannotbe given to prisoners without their consent.
 
1892
 
Albert Neisser injects women with serum from patients withSyphilis, infecting half of them.
 
1896
 
Dr. Arthur Wentworth performs spinal taps on 29 children at
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