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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
Medical experiments to be done without patients' consent
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
Brain-Injury Patients Should be Used for Medical Experiments, Suggest
Bioethicists
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
Republicans want 'secret' drug agency
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
The National Institutes of Health: Public Servant or Private Marketer?
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
40 Years
of Government Sponsored Ecological Terrorism
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.
Source: American Gulf
War Veterans Association
Artificial Blood Tested Without Consent
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
Secrecy Over Cold War WMD Tests
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
About that Tuskegee experiment...
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
Biological Testing Law (Sec. 1520) Repealed
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
Chemical & Biological Testing
(Sec. 1520)
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
Department of Defense Response
"the Department does not and does not intend to
conduct any such tests."
Source: Letter from DoD
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