A broader scape of unethical medical experiments

[Racket_Man]

here in the US most of us should know by now about the infamous Tusgegee experiment, the placing of radioactive substances in the food chain, and more recently the test of the NY subway system involving a simulated bio-attack.

but what we DO NOT generally know about is the extent and number of unethical experiments doctors and scientists did from the 1930s to the 1970s.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/27/ho..._lnk3%7C203752

and now it is claimed that because of the harsher laws and ethics rules and patient consent decrees they just moved to the poorer countries.

we are all just lab rats in one way or another.

[boringscreenname]

Sadly, this really does not surprise me. I read a book called My Lobotomy by Howard Dully. Mr. Dully was given an ice pick lobotomy, when he was just 12 years old, in 1960, by Dr. Walter Freeman, father of the American lobotomy. It took 10 minutes and cost $200, and was arranged by his stepmother and paid for by his father, because his step mother thought he was having "behavioral" (aka typical young boy behavior) problems.

[KitterCat]

Give a listen to an interview of Mr. Dully by NPR back in 2005. Its one of the most memorable pieces I think they’ve done in simple horror for what was done to this man as a child.

Unfortunately I don’t think unwilling human experimentation will ever be fully eradicated. The best we can hope for is to at least eradicate it in our own country and hope others will do the same. But to think that every country will take suet is wishful thinking.