The report, Ethically Impossible: STD research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, concludes that culpability for the events of 65 years ago extends beyond the principal researcher, John Cutler of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Senior officials in the US Public Health Service, and even its chief, the surgeon general himself, knew of and supported Cutler’s experiments.U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala
Source: New Scientist, September 14, 2011
In the experiment, aimed at testing the then-new drug penicillin, inmates were infected by prostitutes and later treated with the antibiotic.DHS Ends Criticized Data-Mining Program
Source Reuters (online), October 1, 2010
The Homeland Security Department scrapped an ambitious anti-terrorism data-mining tool after investigators found it was tested with information about real people without required privacy safeguards.
Source: Breitbart, September 5, 2007
The federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under a controversial arrangement that allows researchers to conduct some kinds of medical experiments without first getting the patients’ permission.Source: Houston Chronicle, May 26, 2007
Patients designated as in a “persistent vegetative state (PVS)” should be used for medical experiments, according to several top bioethicists, regardless of whether or not prior consent was obtained.
Several articles published in the recent issue of the Journal of Medical debated the potential use of patients with non-responsive brain function for such medical experiments as animal organ transplants—to bypass ethic prohibitions against using a living human being for medical experimentation, some even suggested designating such patients as “dead,” saying their cognitive impairments justified treating them as cadavers.
Life Site, October 5, 2006
The National Institutes of Health: Public Servant or Private Marketer?Some Republican lawmakers believe Americans would benefit from the creation of a secretive federal agency responsible for development and testing of medications designed to combat mega-flu outbreaks as well as chemical, biological and radiological terror attacks.Source: WorldNetDaily, December 3, 2005
What doctors were not told for years is this: While making recommendations in the name of the NIH, Brewer was working for the companies that sell the drugs. Government and company records show that from 2001 to 2003, he accepted about $114,000 in consulting fees from four companies making or developing cholesterol medications, including $31,000 from the maker of Crestor.Brewer was far from alone in taking industry’s money: At least 530 government scientists at the NIH, the nation’s preeminent agency for medical research, have taken fees, stock or stock options from biomedical companies in the last five years, records show.Source: LA Times (online), December 22, 2004
While researching the history behind the Gulf War experiments, I have been stunned almost on a daily basis by the revelations of other experiments conducted by the Department of Defense and the CIA on the American civilian and military population. Our most recent discovery is the that the Department of the Army was conducting biological, chemical and nuclear experiments at Ft. Greeley, Alaska and the town of Delta Junction, Alaska.Artificial Blood Tested Without Consent
Source: American Gulf War Veterans Association
Paramedics are testing an experimental blood substitute on severely injured patients without their consent in an unusual study under way or proposed at 20 hospitals around the country.
The study was launched last month in Denver and follows similar research that was halted in 1998, when more than 20 patients died after getting a different experimental blood substitute….
Source: Excite, February 19, 2004
The Pentagon is continuing to withhold documents on Cold War chemical and biological weapons tests that used unsuspecting sailors as “human samplers” after telling Congress it had released all medically relevant information.In response to questions from The Associated Press about a deposition last month by a former military scientist, J. Clifton Spendlove, who planned and supervised the testing program, the Defense Department acknowledged this week it still has documents laying out the scope and methods of the tests.Source: CBS News (online), January 16, 2004
On Friday, President Clinton is set to apologize to 400 black men who were treated like human guinea pigs in a federal government experiment in syphilis treatment in Tuskegee, Alabama, 25 years ago.Source: WorldNetDaily, May 14, 1997
U.S. biowarfare tests remind us of the danger of government ‘protection’
For Americans terrified by the anthrax crisis, here’s some surprising news: This isn’t the first time we’ve been the victims of a biological hazard.And here’s even more surprising news: The last time, it was the U.S. government that was secretly blasting American cities with bacteria, experimenting with different microbe delivery systems, and killing unsuspecting people.In fact, the U.S. government conducted a total of 239 open-air tests of biological agents between 1949 and 1969, exposing millions of Americans from Florida to California to potentially dangerous bacteria and cancer-causing materials.Source: Libertarian Party Press Release, Oct 26, 2001
Pentagon To Reveal Biowarfare Tests
CBS News has learned that the names of servicemen who were sprayed with chemicals decades ago in U.S. military germ warfare tests will be turned over to the Department of Veterans Affairs.CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports that during the 1960s, the Pentagon conducted more than 100 secret biological warfare tests at sea.Source: CBS News Sept. 20, 2000
For over twenty years the Department of Defense (DoD)or their contractors were allowed to use the American people as “Guinea pigs” for testing of chemical or biological agents. Since July 30th, 1977, the United States Code annotated Title 50, Chapter 32, Section 1520 remained on the books until drawn into the arena of public discussion on talk radio.Source: American Gulf War Veterans Association Press Release, May 7, 1998
The Department of Defense is authorized to conduct chemical and biological tests on “human subjects”, i.e. the civilian population. Congress and local authorities must be notified, but they are not required to notify the civilian population being tested!Source: Cornell University Law Library, Release date August 1, 2003
“the Department does not and does not intend to conduct any such tests.”Source: Letter from DoD
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