Guatemalan STD medical experiments were just one crime
in a long history of medical-government collusion to use humans as guinea pigs
(NaturalNews) It has now been widely revealed that the
United States conducted medical experiments on prisoners and mental health
patients in Guatemala in the 1940's. Carried out by a government-employed
doctor working in a psychiatric hospital, these experiments involved
intentionally infecting Guatemalans with syphilis (and other STDs) without
their knowledge in order to determine the effectiveness of penicillin. They
were sponsored in part by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and
they've now been widely reported by ABC News, the Washington Post and many
other mainstream papers (who have suddenly taken an interest in a subject they
normally wouldn't touch).
The outrage against this inhumane medical science
experiment is reflected in mainstream news headlines across the globe, and the
Guatemalan government now characterizes this sad chapter in U.S. history as a
"crime against humanity." News reporters are shocked in reporting the
story, and U.S. government officials seem to be almost beside themselves in
discovering that this ever took place in America.
But what you're about to reveal here will shock you
even more. The U.S. medical experiments on Guatemalan citizens,
you see, barely scratch the surface of the criminal experiments the U.S.
government and the medical industry has carried out on innocent victims over
the last century.
The U.S. pretends to be surprised
The discovery of this medical experiment generated a
series of official U.S. responses that can only be called political theater
given how contrived they are. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton went on
the record saying, "Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago,
we are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the
guise of public health... We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize
to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research
practices."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the
discovery "reprehensible," and President Obama even picked up the
phone to call Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and offer a verbal apology.
You know what all these actions have in common? An
implied message that this experiment from the 1940's was somehow an aberrant
mistake that never happens in America. They want you to believe this is just
some lone researcher who went off his rocker and committed some atrocious crime
in the name of medicine. But the reality is that Big Pharma and the U.S.
government use innocent people in medical experiments
every single day. This wasn't some bizarre, rare event. It was a
reflection of the way the U.S. government has consistently conspired with the
medical industry to test drugs on innocent victims and find out what happens.
U.S. government and Big Pharma continue to commit
crimes against humanity
This pattern extends to the modern day, of course. Remember
the Gulf War veterans who were diagnosed with Gulf War Syndrome shortly
after returning from serving in Iraq? It is widely believed that this syndrome
is the side effect of experimental vaccines and drugs forced upon these
soldiers by the U.S. government. In the timeline of medical experiments shown
below, you'll notice a disturbing pattern of governments exploiting soldiers
for their experiments.
More recently, last year's swine flu vaccine
was essentially one grand medical experiment involving hundreds of millions of
people around the world. The vaccine was entirely untested and had never been
scientifically tested and then approved as safe by any health authority, yet it
was aggressively pushed by government authorities in the hopes that people
would take the shots so they could find out what happens. (It's a lot like
Nancy Pelosi trying to pass the health care reform bill so that we can all find
out what's in it...)
The timeline of medical experiments on innocent
victims
What's really interesting about this story is how the
discovery of this 1940's medical experiment suddenly came to light. It was
"discovered" by Susan M. Reverby, a professor at Wellesley College in
Massachusetts, who said, "I almost fell out of my chair when I started
reading this... Can you imagine? I couldn't believe it." (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content...)
Well maybe she should have been reading NaturalNews.
We've been publishing the truth about medical experimentation on innocent
humans for years. If Susan Reverby knew anything about how the medical industry
really operates, she wouldn't have been surprised at all. The history of
medical experiments conducted in the name of the pharmaceutical industry is
chock full of accounts of prisoners, blacks, women and other groups being
exploited as human lab rats (see the timeline link below to read it for yourself).
Upon discovering this medical experiment, Susan
Reverby was so outraged that she went public with her findings. ABC News picked
up on the story and then it spread like wildfire throughout the mainstream
media. That's the curious thing about this: The mainstream media so rarely
prints the truth about the history of medicine that when something truthful
appears, it's "amazing" news.
But here on NaturalNews.com, we print these kind of
stories every single day. To discover that yet another group of victims was
abused and exploited by a government-paid doctor working for the drug industry
is routine. The abuses of human life committed by the pharmaceutical
industry goes far beyond 1500 Guatemalans and actually extends to tens of
millions of Americans who are being treated like guinea pigs every single
day.
Psychiatry - An Industry of Death
If you really want to be freaked out by the true,
documented history of how people have been tortured, abused, injected, maimed
and otherwise had their lives destroyed by the medical industry, check out the Psychiatry
An Industry of Death Museum created by CCHR (www.CCHR.org).
Watch the video here: http://www.cchr.org/museum.html%23/museum/in...
Watch the video here: http://www.cchr.org/museum.html%23/museum/in...
You can actually walk through this museum yourself.
It's in Los Angeles, and it's one of the most disturbing things you'll ever see
about the true history of medicine. The STD experiments in Guatemala, by the way, were
carried out in a psychiatric hospital. (No surprise.) I walked through this
museum and practically found myself in tears before it was over. The things
that psychiatrists and doctors will do to other human beings in the name of
"medicine" will rock you to the core.
The psychiatric industry has done unspeakable things
to women, children, prisoners, senior citizens, African Americans and racial
minorities -- all in the name of "science" and "medicine."
In fact, these experiments continue to this day in the form of the
psychiatric drugging of children who are diagnosed with fictitious health
conditions such as "ADHD." See my disease mongering engine to invent
your own psychiatric disorders, if you want a bit of satire on this subject: http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-mongering...
Nobody has documented the real history of medicine's
criminal abuse of human beings as well as CCHR - the Citizens' Commission on
Human Rights. Check out their amazing, shocking and eye-opening videos such
as The Marketing of Madness (http://www.cchr.org/videos/marketing-of-madn...)
and Making A Killing (http://www.cchr.org/videos/making-a-killing....).
Here, you'll begin to scratch the surface of the true
story of criminal abuse by the pharmaceutical industry -- often in collusion
with government. Normally, these stories are all covered up and we never hear
about them. After all, to discover that the U.S. government conspired with the
pharmaceutical industry to infect Guatemalans with a sexually-transmitted
disease doesn't exactly reflect the kind of image Obama wishes for people to
believe about America.
A timeline of medical experiments on humans
Below, I've reprinted a timeline of human medical
experiments that we first put together here on NaturalNews several years ago.
This is just a partial list, by the way: There are more experiments that were
conducted in secret and were never documented.
As you'll see here, the experiment on Guatemalans just
barely begins to paint the full picture of just how many human beings have been
killed, poisoned, maimed or otherwise had their lives destroyed by criminal
medical experiments carried out in the name of "medical science."
Many of these experiments involve organizations whose
names you would instantly recognize: Merck, the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research, the Sloan-Kettering Institute, the National Institutes of
Health, Massachusetts General Hospital and many more. This is like a Who's Who
of the pharmaceutical industry, and they were all involved in using human
beings as guinea pigs to conduct medical experiments.
And as you'll see below, the Guatemalan experiment
isn't even the most grotesque or disturbing.
Note: Below is only a partial list of human medical experiments we've documented here on NaturalNews. See the full list here: http://www.naturalnews.com/022383_research_e...
Note: Below is only a partial list of human medical experiments we've documented here on NaturalNews. See the full list here: http://www.naturalnews.com/022383_research_e...
(1845 - 1849)
J. Marion Sims, later hailed as the "father of
gynecology," performs medical experiments on
enslaved African women without anesthesia.
These women would usually die of infection soon after surgery. Based on his
belief that the movement of newborns' skull bones during protracted births
causes trismus, he also uses a shoemaker's awl, a pointed tool shoemakers use
to make holes in leather, to practice moving the skull bones of babies born to
enslaved mothers (Brinker).
(1895)
New York pediatrician Henry
Heiman infects a 4-year-old boy whom he calls "an idiot with chronic
epilepsy" with gonorrhea as part of a medical experiment ("Human Experimentation: Before
the Nazi Era and After").
(1896)
Dr. Arthur Wentworth turns 29 children at Boston's
Children's Hospital into human guinea pigs
when he performs spinal taps on them, just to test whether the procedure is
harmful (Sharav).
(1906)
Harvard professor Dr. Richard Strong infects prisoners
in the Philippines with cholera to study the disease; 13 of them die. He
compensates survivors with cigars and cigarettes. During the Nuremberg Trials,
Nazi doctors cite this study to
justify their own medical experiments (Greger, Sharav).
(1911)
Dr. Hideyo Noguchi of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research publishes data on injecting an inactive syphilis preparation
into the skin of 146 hospital patients and normal
children in an attempt to develop a skin test for syphilis. Later, in 1913,
several of these children's parents
sue Dr. Noguchi for allegedly infecting their children with syphilis ("Reviews and Notes: History of
Medicine: Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the
Second World War").
(1913)
Medical experimenters "test" 15 children at
the children's home St. Vincent's House in Philadelphia with tuberculin,
resulting in permanent blindness in some of the
children. Though the Pennsylvania House of Representatives records the
incident, the researchers are not punished for the experiments ("Human Experimentation: Before
the Nazi Era and After").
(1915)
Dr. Joseph Goldberger, under order of the U.S. Public
Health Office, produces Pellagra, a debilitating disease that affects the
central nervous system, in 12 Mississippi
inmates to try to find a cure for the disease. One test subject later says that
he had been through "a thousand hells." In 1935, after millions die
from the disease, the director of the U.S Public Health Office would finally
admit that officials had known that it was caused by a niacin deficiency for
some time, but did nothing about it because it mostly affected poor
African-Americans. During the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi doctors used this study to
try to justify their medical experiments on concentration camp inmates (Greger; Cockburn and St. Clair, eds.).
(1932)
(1932-1972) The U.S. Public Health Service in
Tuskegee, Ala. diagnoses 400 poor, black sharecroppers with syphilis but never
tells them of their illness nor treats them; instead researchers use the men as
human guinea pigs to follow the symptoms and progression of the disease. They
all eventually die from syphilis and their families are never told that they
could have been treated (Goliszek, University of Virginia Health System
Health Sciences Library).
(1939)
In order to test his theory on the roots of
stuttering, prominent speech pathologist Dr. Wendell Johnson performs his
famous "Monster Experiment" on 22 children at the Iowa Soldiers'
Orphans' Home in Davenport. Dr. Johnson and his graduate students put the
children under intense psychological pressure, causing them to switch from
speaking normally to stuttering heavily. At the time, some of the students
reportedly warn Dr. Johnson that, "in the aftermath of World War II,
observers might draw comparisons to Nazi experiments on human subjects, which
could destroy his career" (Alliance for Human Research
Protection).
(1941)
Dr. William C. Black infects a 12-month-old baby with herpes as part of a medical
experiment. At the time, the editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine,
Francis Payton Rous, calls it "an abuse of power, an infringement of the
rights of an individual, and not excusable because the illness which followed
had implications for science" (Sharav).
An article in a 1941 issue of Archives of
Pediatrics describes medical studies of the severe gum disease Vincent's
angina in which doctors transmit the disease from sick children to healthy
children with oral swabs (Goliszek).
Researchers give 800 poverty-stricken pregnant women at a Vanderbilt
University prenatal clinic "cocktails" including radioactive iron in
order to determine the iron requirements of pregnant women (Pacchioli).
(1942)
The Chemical Warfare Service begins mustard gas and
lewisite experiments on 4,000 members of the U.S. military. Some test subjects
don't realize they are volunteering for chemical exposure experiments, like
17-year-old Nathan Schnurman, who in 1944 thinks he is only volunteering to
test "U.S. Navy summer clothes" (Goliszek).
Merck Pharmaceuticals President George Merck is named director of
the War Research Service (WRS), an agency designed to oversee the establishment
of a biological warfare program (Goliszek).
(1944 - 1946) A captain in the medical corps addresses
an April 1944 memo to Col. Stanford Warren, head of the Manhattan Project's
Medical Section, expressing his concerns about atom bomb component fluoride's
central nervous system (CNS) effects and asking for animal research to be done
to determine the extent of these effects: "Clinical evidence suggests that
uranium hexafluoride may have a rather marked central nervous system effect ...
It seems most likely that the F [code for fluoride] component rather than the T
[code for uranium] is the causative factor ... Since work with these compounds
is essential, it will be necessary to know in advance what mental effects may
occur after exposure." The following year, the Manhattan Project would
begin human-based studies on fluoride's effects (Griffiths and Bryson).
The Manhattan Project medical team, led by the now
infamous University of Rochester radiologist Col. Safford Warren, injects
plutonium into patients at the University's teaching hospital, Strong Memorial
(Burton Report).
(1945)
Continuing the Manhattan Project, researchers inject
plutonium into three patients at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital
(Sharav).
The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence and the CIA begin
Operation Paperclip, offering Nazi scientists immunity and secret identities in
exchange for work on top-secret government projects on aerodynamics and
chemical warfare medicine in the United States ("Project Paperclip").
(1945 - 1955) In Newburgh, N.Y., researchers linked to
the Manhattan Project begin the most extensive American study ever done on the
health effects of fluoridating public drinking water (Griffiths and Bryson).
(1946)
Continuing the Newburg study of 1945, the Manhattan
Project commissions the University of Rochester to study fluoride's effects on
animals and humans in a project codenamed "Program F." With the help
of the New York State Health Department, Program F researchers secretly collect
and analyze blood and tissue samples from Newburg residents. The studies are
sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission and take place at the University of
Rochester Medical Center's Strong Memorial Hospital (Griffiths and Bryson).
(1946 - 1947) University of Rochester researchers
inject four male and two female human test subjects with uranium-234 and
uranium-235 in dosages ranging from 6.4 to 70.7 micrograms per one kilogram of
body weight in order to study how much uranium they could tolerate before their
kidneys become damaged (Goliszek).
Six male employees of
a Chicago metallurgical laboratory are given water
contaminated with plutonium-239 to drink so that researchers can learn how
plutonium is absorbed into the digestive tract (Goliszek).
Researchers begin using patients in VA hospitals as test subjects for
human medical experiments, cleverly worded as "investigations" or
"observations" in medical study reports to avoid negative
connotations and bad publicity (Sharav).
The American public finally learns of the biowarfare
experiments being done at Fort Detrick from a report released by the War
Department (Goliszek).
(1947)
Col. E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC) issues a top-secret document (707075) dated Jan. 8. In it, he
writes that "certain radioactive substances are being prepared for
intravenous administration to human subjects as a part of the work of the
contract" (Goliszek).
A secret AEC document dated April 17 reads, "It
is desired that no document be released which refers to experiments with humans
that might have an adverse reaction on public opinion or result in legal
suits," revealing that the U.S. government was aware of the health risks
its nuclear tests posed to military personnel conducting the tests or nearby
civilians (Goliszek).
The CIA begins studying
LSD's potential as a weapon by using military and civilian test subjects for
experiments without their consent or even knowledge. Eventually, these LSD
studies will evolve into the MKULTRA program in 1953 (Sharav).
(1947 - 1953) The U.S. Navy begins Project Chatter to
identify and test so-called "truth serums," such as those used by the
Soviet Union to interrogate spies. Mescaline and the central nervous system
depressant scopolamine are among the many drugs tested on human subjects
(Goliszek).
(1948)
Based on the secret studies performed on Newburgh,
N.Y. residents beginning in 1945, Project F researchers publish a report in the
August 1948 edition of the Journal of the American Dental Association,
detailing fluoride's health dangers. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
quickly censors it for "national security" reasons (Griffiths and Bryson).
(1950)
(1950 - 1953) The U.S. Army releases chemical clouds
over six American and Canadian cities. Residents in Winnipeg, Canada, where a
highly toxic chemical called cadmium is dropped, subsequently experience high
rates of respiratory illnesses (Cockburn and St. Clair, eds.).
In order to determine how susceptible an American city
could be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of Bacillus
globigii bacteria from ships over the San Francisco shoreline. According
to monitoring devices situated throughout the city to test the extent of
infection, the eight thousand residents of San Francisco inhale five thousand
or more bacteria particles, many becoming sick with pneumonia-like symptoms
(Goliszek).
Dr. Joseph Strokes of the University of Pennsylvania
infects 200 female prisoners with viral hepatitis to
study the disease (Sharav).
Doctors at the Cleveland City Hospital study changes
in cerebral blood flow by injecting test
subjects with spinal anesthesia, inserting needles in their jugular veins and
brachial arteries, tilting their heads down and, after massive blood loss
causes paralysis and fainting, measuring their blood pressure.
They often perform this experiment multiple times on the same subject
(Goliszek).
Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, later of MKULTRA infamy due to
his 1957 to1964 experiments on Canadians, publishes an article in the British
Journal of Physical Medicine, in which he describes experiments that entail
forcing schizophrenic patients at Manitoba's Brandon Mental Hospital to lie
naked under 15- to 200-watt red lamps for up to eight hours per day. His other
experiments include placing mental patients in an electric cage that overheats
their internal body temperatures to 103 degrees Fahrenheit, and inducing comas
by giving patients large injections of insulin (Goliszek).
(1951)
The U.S. Army secretly contaminates the Norfolk Naval
Supply Center in Virginia and Washington, D.C.'s National Airport with a strain
of bacteria chosen because African-Americans were believed to be more
susceptible to it than Caucasians. The experiment causes food poisoning,
respiratory problems and blood poisoning (Cockburn and St. Clair, eds.).
( 1951 - 1956) Under contract with the Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine (SAM), the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston begins studying the effects of radiation on cancer patients -- many of them members of minority groups or indigents, according to sources -- in order to determine both radiation's ability to treat cancer and the possible long-term radiation effects of pilots flying nuclear-powered planes. The study lasts until 1956, involving 263 cancer patients. Beginning in 1953, the subjects are required to sign a waiver form, but it still does not meet the informed consent guidelines established by the Wilson memo released that year. The TBI studies themselves would continue at four different institutions -- Baylor University College of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine -- until 1971 (U.S. Department of Energy, Goliszek).
( 1951 - 1956) Under contract with the Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine (SAM), the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston begins studying the effects of radiation on cancer patients -- many of them members of minority groups or indigents, according to sources -- in order to determine both radiation's ability to treat cancer and the possible long-term radiation effects of pilots flying nuclear-powered planes. The study lasts until 1956, involving 263 cancer patients. Beginning in 1953, the subjects are required to sign a waiver form, but it still does not meet the informed consent guidelines established by the Wilson memo released that year. The TBI studies themselves would continue at four different institutions -- Baylor University College of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine -- until 1971 (U.S. Department of Energy, Goliszek).
American, Canadian and British military and
intelligence officials gather a small group of eminent psychologists to a secret
meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal about Communist
"thought-control techniques." They proposed a top-secret research
program on behavior modification -- involving testing drugs, hypnosis, electroshock and
lobotomies on humans (Barker).
(1952)
At the famous Sloan-Kettering Institute, Chester M.
Southam injects live cancer cells into prisoners at
the Ohio State Prison to study the progression of the disease. Half of the
prisoners in this National Institutes of Health-sponsored (NIH) study are
black, awakening racial suspicions stemming from Tuskegee, which was also an
NIH-sponsored study (Merritte, et al.).
(1953 - 1974) The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
sponsors iodine studies at the
University of Iowa. In the first study, researchers give pregnant women 100 to
200 microcuries of iodine-131 and then study the women's aborted embryos in
order to learn at what stage and to what extent radioactive iodine crosses the
placental barrier. In the second study, researchers give 12 male and 13 female newborns under 36 hours old
and weighing between 5.5 and 8.5 pounds iodine-131 either orally or via
intramuscular injection, later measuring the concentration of iodine in the
newborns' thyroid glands (Goliszek).
As part of an AEC study, researchers feed 28 healthy
infants at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine iodine-131 through a
gastric tube and then test concentration of iodine in the infants' thyroid glands
24 hours later (Goliszek).
(1953 - 1957) Eleven patients at Massachusetts General
Hospital in Boston are injected with uranium as part of the Manhattan Project (Sharav).
In an AEC-sponsored study at the University of
Tennessee, researchers inject healthy two- to three-day-old newborns with
approximately 60 rads of iodine-131 (Goliszek).
Newborn Daniel Burton becomes blind when physicians at Brooklyn Doctors
Hospital perform an experimental high oxygen
treatment for Retrolental Fibroplasia, a retinal disorder affecting premature
infants, on him and other premature babies. The physicians perform the
experimental treatment despite earlier studies showing that high oxygen levels
cause blindness. Testimony in Burton v. Brooklyn Doctors Hospital (452
N.Y.S.2d875) later reveals that researchers continued to give Burton and other
infants excess oxygen even after their eyes had swelled to dangerous levels
(Goliszek, Sharav).
A 1953 article in Clinical Science describes a
medical experiment in which researchers purposely blister the abdomens of 41
children, ranging in age from eight to 14, with cantharide in order to study
how severely the substance irritates the skin (Goliszek).
The AEC performs a series of field tests known as
"Green Run," dropping radiodine 131 and xenon 133 over the Hanford,
Wash. site -- 500,000 acres encompassing three small towns (Hanford, White
Bluffs and Richland) along the Columbia River (Sharav).
In an AEC-sponsored study to learn whether radioactive
iodine affects premature babies differently from full-term babies, researchers
at Harper Hospital in Detroit give oral doses of iodine-131 to 65 premature and
full-term infants weighing between 2.1 and 5.5
pounds (Goliszek).
(1955 - 1957) In order to learn how cold weather
affects human physiology, researchers give a total of 200 doses of iodine-131,
a radioactive tracer that concentrates almost immediately in the thyroid gland, to 85 healthy
Eskimos and 17 Athapascan Indians living in Alaska. They study the tracer
within the body by blood, thyroid tissue, urine and saliva samples from the
test subjects. Due to the language barrier, no one tells the test subjects what
is being done to them, so there is no informed consent (Goliszek).
(1956 - 1957) U.S. Army covert biological weapons
researchers release mosquitoes infected with yellow fever and dengue fever over
Savannah, Ga., and Avon Park, Fla., to test the insects' ability to carry
disease. After each test, Army agents pose as public health
officials to test victims for effects and take pictures of the unwitting test
subjects. These experiments result in a high incidence of fevers, respiratory
distress, stillbirths, encephalitis and typhoid among the two cities'
residents, as well as several deaths (Cockburn and St. Clair, eds.).
(1957)
The U.S. military conducts Operation Plumbbob at the
Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Operation Pumbbob consists
of 29 nuclear detonations, eventually creating radiation expected to result in
a total 32,000 cases of thyroid cancer among civilians in the area. Around
18,000 members of the U.S. military participate in Operation Pumbbob's Desert
Rock VII and VIII, which are designed to see how the average foot soldier
physiologically and mentally responds to a nuclear battlefield ("Operation Plumbbob",
Goliszek).
(1957 - 1964) As part of MKULTRA, the CIA pays McGill
University Department of Psychiatry founder Dr. D. Ewen Cameron $69,000 to
perform LSD studies and potentially lethal experiments on Canadians being
treated for minor disorders like post-partum depression
and anxiety at the Allan Memorial Institute, which houses the Psychiatry
Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. The CIA encourages Dr.
Cameron to fully explore his "psychic driving" concept of correcting
madness through completely erasing one's memory and rewriting the psyche. These
"driving" experiments involve putting human test subjects into drug-,
electroshock- and sensory deprivation-induced vegetative states for up to three
months, and then playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements
for weeks or months in order to "rewrite" the "erased"
psyche. Dr. Cameron also gives human test subjects paralytic drugs and
electroconvulsive therapy 30 to 40 times, as part of his experiments. Most of
Dr. Cameron's test subjects suffer permanent damage as a result of his work
(Goliszek, "Donald Ewan Cameron").
In order to study how blood flows through children's
brains, researchers at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia perform the
following experiment on healthy children, ranging in age from three to 11: They
insert needles into each child's femoral artery (thigh) and jugular vein
(neck), bringing the blood down from the brain. Then, they force each child to
inhale a special gas through a facemask. In their subsequent Journal of
Clinical Investigation article on this study, the researchers note that, in
order to perform the experiment, they had to restrain some of the child test
subjects by bandaging them to boards (Goliszek).
(1958)
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) drops
radioactive materials over Point Hope, Alaska, home to the Inupiats, in a field
test known under the codename "Project Chariot" (Sharav).
(1961)
In response to the Nuremberg Trials, Yale psychologist
Stanley Milgram begins his famous Obedience to Authority Study in order to
answer his question "Could it be that (Adolf) Eichmann and his million
accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all
accomplices?" Male test subjects, ranging in age from 20 to 40 and coming
from all education backgrounds, are told to give "learners" electric shocks
for every wrong answer the learners give in response to word pair questions. In
reality, the learners are actors and are not receiving electric shocks, but
what matters is that the test subjects do not know that. Astoundingly, they
keep on following orders and continue to administer increasingly high levels of
"shocks," even after the actor learners show obvious physical pain ("Milgram Experiment").
(1962)
Researchers at the Laurel Children's Center in Maryland
test experimental acne antibiotics on
children and continue their tests even after half of the young test subjects
develop severe liver damage because of the experimental medication (Goliszek).
The FDA begins requiring that a new pharmaceutical
undergo three human clinical trials before it will approve it. From 1962 to
1980, pharmaceutical companies
satisfy this
requirement by running Phase I trials, which determine
a drug's toxicity, on prison inmates, giving them small amounts of cash for
compensation (Sharav).
(1963)
Chester M. Southam,
who injected Ohio State Prison inmates with live cancer cells in 1952, performs
the same procedure on 22 senile, African-American female patients at the
Brooklyn Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in order to watch their immunological
response. Southam tells the patients that they are receiving "some
cells," but leaves out the fact that they are cancer cells. He claims he
doesn't obtain informed consent from the patients because he does not want to
frighten them by telling them what he is doing, but he nevertheless temporarily
loses his medical license because of it. Ironically, he eventually becomes
president of the American Cancer Society (Greger, Merritte, et al.).
Researchers at the
University of Washington directly irradiate the testes of 232 prison inmates in
order to determine radiation's effects on testicular function. When these
inmates later leave prison and have children, at least four have babies born
with birth defects. The exact number is unknown because researchers never
follow up on the men to see the long-term effects of their experiment
(Goliszek).
(1963 - 1966) New
York University researcher Saul Krugman promises parents with mentally disabled
children definite enrollment into the Willowbrook State School in Staten
Island, N.Y., a resident mental institution for mentally retarded children, in
exchange for their signatures on a consent form for procedures presented as
"vaccinations." In reality,
the procedures involve deliberately infecting children with viral hepatitis by feeding
them an extract made from the feces of infected patients, so that Krugman can
study the course of viral hepatitis as well the effectiveness of a hepatitis
vaccine (Hammer Breslow).
(1963 - 1971) Leading
endocrinologist Dr. Carl Heller gives 67 prison inmates at Oregon State Prison
in Salem $5 per month and $25 per testicular tissue biopsy in compensation for
allowing him to perform irradiation experiments on their testes. If they
receive vasectomies at the end of the study, the prisoners are given an extra
$100 (Sharav, Goliszek).
Researchers inject a
genetic compound called radioactive thymidine into the testicles of more than
100 Oregon State Penitentiary inmates to learn whether sperm production is
affected by exposure to steroid hormones (Greger).
In a study published
in Pediatrics, researchers at the University of California's Department
of Pediatrics use 113 newborns ranging in age from one hour to three days old
in a series of experiments used to study changes in blood pressure and blood
flow. In one study, doctors insert a catheter through the newborns' umbilical
arteries and into their aortas and then immerse the newborns' feet in ice water
while recording aortic pressure. In another experiment, doctors strap 50
newborns to a circumcision board, tilt the table so that all the blood rushes
to their heads and then measure their blood pressure (Goliszek).
(1964 - 1967) The Dow
Chemical Company pays Professor Kligman $10,000 to learn how dioxin -- a highly
toxic, carcinogenic component of Agent Orange -- and other herbicides affect human
skin because workers at the chemical plant have been developing an acne-like
condition called Chloracne and the company would like to know whether the chemicals they are handling
are to blame. As part of the study, Professor Kligman applies roughly the
amount of dioxin Dow employees are exposed to on the skin 60 prisoners, and is
disappointed when the prisoners show no symptoms of Chloracne. In 1980 and
1981, the human guinea pigs used in this study would begin suing Professor
Kligman for complications including lupus and psychological damage (Kaye).
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