Medical experimentation is the foundation of many of the
critical discoveries that have saved lives and changed the way we live, but not
all of those experiments have been innocuous. In fact, over the last century
horrible harms have been done to individuals in the name of science, says
Natural News and Health Ranger Mike Adams. Some of these experiments are well
known, but many are buried in the annals of history.
The Tuskegee
Syphillis Study
The Tuskegee syphilis study is one of the most well known
cases of human medical experimentation that crossed an ethical line. In 1932, a
group of sharecroppers were injected with syphilis and were then subsequently
followed by a team of doctors who trace the progression of the untreated
disease, explains Natural News.
All of the men eventually die from the disease, though none know it is the
cause.
Testing Chemical
Warfare
Sharecroppers were an easy target, but the United States has
not been above testing members of its own military. In 1942, for instance, a
group of 4,000 military members find themselves volunteered for chemical
exposure. The chemicals to be tested, according to Health Ranger Mike Adams, were
mustard gas and lewisite. Many of the volunteers have no notion of what they
have been volunteered to do.
Easy Targets: The
Insane
Patients at mental institutions were perennial favorites
when it came to medical experimentation. During WWII, a University of Chicago
Medical School professor infected a group of psychotic patients with malaria in
an attempt to develop a cure to help the war effort. The infected group was
then exposed to a variety of attempted cures, explains Natural News.
An Assault On
Prisoners
Similarly, prisoners were another easy group to experiment
on and have found themselves on the receiving end of a variety of experiments,
including a 1967 experiment in which a skin-blistering chemical was applied to
their faces and backs. Scientists justified this by saying they were examining
how skin works to protect itself against constant assault. Unfortunately, notes
Health Ranger Mike Adams,
the prisoners had no means of protecting themselves from such an assault.
Searching For The Crime Gene
As we get closer to today, those
viewed as pre-criminals were subjects of medical experiments as well, says the
Natural News. A group of 7,000 young African American men are told they are
being tested for anemia but instead are tested for the presence of an
additional Y chromosome, which was believed to predispose the men to criminal
activity.
The history of medical
experimentation does not end there, but continues today, often unrealized. It
is left to investigative journalists and curious citizens to unmask the
unethical acts of the medical establishment.
