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Post by toni on Oct 4, 2010 13:45:34 GMT -5
In a 100 years from now (or less) how will they look back at medicine today? Check out this video, it's QUITE GOOD. www.museumofquackery.com/devices/radium.htm[glow=red,2,300]Scroll to middle of page.[/glow]Innocent people (just not knowing any better).
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Post by kmarie on Oct 4, 2010 15:48:13 GMT -5
An important question is what is happening now in the name of "defense" and "learning more about the human body"?Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary testified before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs in January, 1994. This excerpt from her testimony shows O'Leary doing her best to reassure Congress that, despite 40 years of announced experiments, the Department of Energy is doing its best to act ethically. (( what do they (DOE) consider "doing their best to act ethically" really mean? )) O'Leary describes the drive to declassify documents about human radiation testing, and goes on to detail current testing, noting that "in no case is there any exposure of living human subjects to radioactive or chemical agents." At the end of this excerpt, O'Leary announces the creation of ACHRE, a committee with a focus on "ethical and scientific standards." ConclusionsDuring the 50 years since World War II, the U. S. government consistently ignored the ethical standards it set at the Nuremberg Trials for human experimentation to try to press through its perceived testing needs without alarming the American public. Whatever the gains, the ethical lapses far outshadowed the possible benefits from the Tuskegee syphilis study and the various Atomic Energy Commission radiation experiments. While recent laws try to better preserve the concepts of informed consent and minimized risk, the threat of being experimented on against one's will still remains in the American system. www.mit.edu/~dmaze/human_experimentation.htmlwww.raven1.net/mcf/1.htmlSince 1945, hundreds of thousands of military personnel became human guinea pigs in experiments and intentional exposures conducted by the U.S. government--often without their knowledge or consent. Since 1945, hundreds of thousands of military personnel became human guinea pigs in experiments and intentional exposures conducted by the U.S. government--often without their knowledge or consent. Aided by recently declassified documents, we reveal the truth about human experimentation, once hidden as a threat to "National Security". Declassified: Human Experimentation2008 50 minutes Pointing to pages upon pages of recently declassified material dating back to 1945, this unsettling History Channel documentary chronicles the U.S. government's often-secretive attempts to use humans as test subjects. Long concealed by claims of national security, the practice of human experimentation in America is now out in the open -- and open to debate. Is experimenting on humans without their knowledge ever justifiable? They dropped light bulbs in the subway with B. Subtilis and many others AFTER the cold war. VIDEO CLIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkA_qAN65dg
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Post by Lynn on Oct 5, 2010 2:38:38 GMT -5
Kmar
My dad was a victum of such testing. He was in the Navy and they had about 3 ships. Have to ask my big sis about the correct numbers. Well they let off some sort of bombs in the water to see how the radiation would effect the crews on the ships. They and the ships tested way to high for radiation and they had to scrub down the ship. Still no good and they had to re-scrub down the ship and crews again. Still when they were finally permitted to go back to port they all test to high in radiation levels.
In Light Lynn
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Post by ibzahp on Oct 6, 2010 18:43:42 GMT -5
Wow Toni that is way scarier than the wicked witch of the north. Anything for a buck!
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