Topic: Human experimentation in the US
Anonymous A started this discussion 15 years ago #9,201
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
Holy shit, have you read some of the things that were done to people without their consent?
> in 1950, Dr. Joseph Stokes of the University of Pennsylvania deliberately infected 200 female prisoners with viral hepatitis
> In 1955, the CIA conducted a biological warfare experiment (despite the Fourth Geneva Convention) where they released whooping cough bacteria from boats outside of Tampa Bay, Florida, causing a whooping cough epidemic in the city, and killing at least 12 people.
> In 1962, twenty-two elderly patients at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, New York were injected with live cancer cells by Chester M. Southam, who in 1952 had done the same to prisoners at the Ohio State Prison, in order to "discover the secret of how healthy bodies fight the invasion of malignant cells". The administration of the hospital attempted to cover the study up, but the New York State medical licensing board ultimately placed Southam on probation for one year. Two years later, the American Cancer Society elected him as their Vice President
> Also at Sloan-Kettering, 300 healthy women were injected with live cancer cells without being told. The doctors stated that they knew at the time that it might cause cancer.
> n 1953, the AEC sponsored a study to discover if radioactive iodine affected premature babies differently from full-term babies. In the experiment, researchers from Harper Hospital in Detroit orally administered iodine-131 to 65 premature and full-term infants who weighed from 2.1 to 5.5 lb (2.5 kg).
> In 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project, three patients at Billings Hospital at the University of Chicago were injected with plutonium.
> From 1946 to 1953, at the Walter E. Fernald State School in Massachusetts, in an experiment sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Quaker Oats corporation, 73 mentally disabled children were fed oatmeal containing radioactive calcium and other radioisotopes, in order to track "how nutrients were digested". The children were not told that they were being fed radioactive chemicals and were told by hospital staff and researchers that they were joining a "science club".
> In the 1950s, researchers at the Medical College of Virginia performed experiments on severe burn victims, most of them poor and black, without their knowledge or consent, with funding from the Army and in collaboration with the AEC. In the experiments, the subjects were exposed to additional burning, experimental antibiotic treatment, and injections of radioactive isotopes.
> In another study at the Walter E. Fernald State School, in 1956, researchers gave mentally disabled children radioactive calcium orally and intravenously. They also injected radioactive chemicals into malnourished babies and then pushed needles through their skulls, into their brains, through their necks, and into their spines to collect cerebrospinal fluid for analysis.
> An eighteen-year-old woman at an upstate New York hospital, expecting to be treated for a pituitary gland disorder, was injected with plutonium.
> In 1961 and 1962, ten Utah State Prison inmates had blood samples taken which were then mixed with radioactive chemicals and reinjected back into their bodies.
... and so many more things I cannot even list. All of these things happened in America, supposedly the "land of the free". These are things I would expect to read about Nazi Germany. I think the US might really be the greatest human rights abuser in the world.
Holy shit, have you read some of the things that were done to people without their consent?
> in 1950, Dr. Joseph Stokes of the University of Pennsylvania deliberately infected 200 female prisoners with viral hepatitis
> In 1955, the CIA conducted a biological warfare experiment (despite the Fourth Geneva Convention) where they released whooping cough bacteria from boats outside of Tampa Bay, Florida, causing a whooping cough epidemic in the city, and killing at least 12 people.
> In 1962, twenty-two elderly patients at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, New York were injected with live cancer cells by Chester M. Southam, who in 1952 had done the same to prisoners at the Ohio State Prison, in order to "discover the secret of how healthy bodies fight the invasion of malignant cells". The administration of the hospital attempted to cover the study up, but the New York State medical licensing board ultimately placed Southam on probation for one year. Two years later, the American Cancer Society elected him as their Vice President
> Also at Sloan-Kettering, 300 healthy women were injected with live cancer cells without being told. The doctors stated that they knew at the time that it might cause cancer.
> n 1953, the AEC sponsored a study to discover if radioactive iodine affected premature babies differently from full-term babies. In the experiment, researchers from Harper Hospital in Detroit orally administered iodine-131 to 65 premature and full-term infants who weighed from 2.1 to 5.5 lb (2.5 kg).
> In 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project, three patients at Billings Hospital at the University of Chicago were injected with plutonium.
> From 1946 to 1953, at the Walter E. Fernald State School in Massachusetts, in an experiment sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Quaker Oats corporation, 73 mentally disabled children were fed oatmeal containing radioactive calcium and other radioisotopes, in order to track "how nutrients were digested". The children were not told that they were being fed radioactive chemicals and were told by hospital staff and researchers that they were joining a "science club".
> In the 1950s, researchers at the Medical College of Virginia performed experiments on severe burn victims, most of them poor and black, without their knowledge or consent, with funding from the Army and in collaboration with the AEC. In the experiments, the subjects were exposed to additional burning, experimental antibiotic treatment, and injections of radioactive isotopes.
> In another study at the Walter E. Fernald State School, in 1956, researchers gave mentally disabled children radioactive calcium orally and intravenously. They also injected radioactive chemicals into malnourished babies and then pushed needles through their skulls, into their brains, through their necks, and into their spines to collect cerebrospinal fluid for analysis.
> An eighteen-year-old woman at an upstate New York hospital, expecting to be treated for a pituitary gland disorder, was injected with plutonium.
> In 1961 and 1962, ten Utah State Prison inmates had blood samples taken which were then mixed with radioactive chemicals and reinjected back into their bodies.
... and so many more things I cannot even list. All of these things happened in America, supposedly the "land of the free". These are things I would expect to read about Nazi Germany. I think the US might really be the greatest human rights abuser in the world.
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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 15 minutes later[^] [v] #162,910
And at the end of the day...we still die. :(
Leo Vegas !gNoGoD5HzQ joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #162,913
Those doctors were just doing their jobs. Also they let retards join a science club. They didn't even have to do that but they did.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 10 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #163,271
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So?
So?
hamfist !!snnYcROO9 joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 21 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #163,276
You just now found out about this?
Green !pFNWNYROxA joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 10 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #163,278
> 49 years laterAnonymous E replied with this 15 years ago, 7 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #163,329
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> The latest date in that list is 1962.
There's things from the 70s, 80s, and even 90s and 00s. Not that it matters; these aren't things you would expect a country to do to its own people ever.
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> …and there are only a few hundred people experimented upon.
So? That doesn't make it any better. There were much more than a few hundred, anyway.
> The latest date in that list is 1962.
There's things from the 70s, 80s, and even 90s and 00s. Not that it matters; these aren't things you would expect a country to do to its own people ever.
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> …and there are only a few hundred people experimented upon.
So? That doesn't make it any better. There were much more than a few hundred, anyway.
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 28 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #163,340
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swamplights !!V3J448+/B joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 28 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #163,365
The greatest human rights abuser? What about Rwanda?