AP IMPACT: Ugly US medical experiments uncovered
ATLANTA -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.
Much of this horrific history is 40 to 80 years old, but it is the backdrop for a meeting in Washington this week by a presidential bioethics commission. The meeting was triggered by the government's apology last fall for federal doctors infecting prisoners and mental patients in Guatemala with syphilis 65 years ago.
U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of similar experiments in the United States - studies that often involved making healthy people sick. Read more
In child welfare, under the guise of the "best interests of the child" principle, secrecy laws prevent exposing the use of poor and foster children as lab rats.
Children of third world countries and nations in transition have become 'laboratory rats' for the US' clinical tests for new drugs, an Indian newspaper says.
Under US' 1997 legislation called the Pediatric Exclusivity Provision, intended to speed up development of new drugs for American kids, the trials were carried out in countries such as Uganda and India, The Times of India reported.
Although the trials were carried out in such countries, using their children as laboratory rats, it is not clear if okayed medicines might ever become available there and whether they will be affordable for them.
The most egregious activity of using vulnerable poor children as lab rats is the generation of imperialistic morality propaganda to defend the practices of big pharma.
One of the biggest protectors of the practice of using foster kids as lab rats is the law. The next level of protection comes from media personalities who wanted to persecute the persons who brought this to light.
The only way the Department of Justice can approach the issue of stopping the practices of using poor children as lab rats is to engage in unconventional methods. The Wikileaks or Cablegate scandal allowed for prosecution of health care fraud. It is not much, but it is a start.
U.S. Embassy Cable on Pfizer Clinical Trials on Children, Their Murders and Settlement
In child welfare, under the guise of the "best interests of the child" principle, secrecy laws prevent exposing the use of poor and foster children as lab rats.
Uganda's poor children
Children of third world countries and nations in transition have become 'laboratory rats' for the US' clinical tests for new drugs, an Indian newspaper says.Under US' 1997 legislation called the Pediatric Exclusivity Provision, intended to speed up development of new drugs for American kids, the trials were carried out in countries such as Uganda and India, The Times of India reported.
Although the trials were carried out in such countries, using their children as laboratory rats, it is not clear if okayed medicines might ever become available there and whether they will be affordable for them.
The most egregious activity of using vulnerable poor children as lab rats is the generation of imperialistic morality propaganda to defend the practices of big pharma.
One of the biggest protectors of the practice of using foster kids as lab rats is the law. The next level of protection comes from media personalities who wanted to persecute the persons who brought this to light.
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| Glenn Beck covering up using poor kids as lab rats |
"America has suffered an embarrassing leak of classified information via WikiLeaks. According to some reports today, this is the largest loss of sensitive information by a world superpower in all of human history. But the question is, what did we learn from these? Is there anything new here? I've seen much of what it out there and I've heard the people on TV talk about it. This is merely serving to tell you what you already knew – the government is lying to you."
The only way the Department of Justice can approach the issue of stopping the practices of using poor children as lab rats is to engage in unconventional methods. The Wikileaks or Cablegate scandal allowed for prosecution of health care fraud. It is not much, but it is a start.
U.S. Embassy Cable on Pfizer Clinical Trials on Children, Their Murders and Settlement
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