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Unethical Experiments

  • Introduction: Unethical Medical Experiments 1980–2010

    August 1, 2015 |

    “The whole discipline of biomedical ethics rises from the ashes of the Holocaust…”  Arthur Caplan The Nuremberg Code (1947) laid the foundation for biomedical ethics mandating that medical experiments conducted on human beings must conform to well-defined humane, ethical standards; foremost is . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments
  • 1980: NIH Inaugurated the “Decade of the Brain”

    August 1, 2015 |

    National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) inaugurated the “Decade of the Brain” and sponsored  Psychiatry’s Cruel and Inhumane Research Paradigm In the 1980s and 1990s increased federal funding accelerated clinical research into mental disorders. History has demonstrated that mental patients are most . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged relapse-inducing experiments, Mount Sinai, veterans abused, animal physiology. L-Dopa, Bronx VA, Bibliography, Society for Neuroscience
  • 1981 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Bone Marrow Experiment Protocol 126

    August 1, 2015 |

    1980: U.S. documents reveal criminal human experiments conducted by Japan’s Unit 731 American journalist John Powell brought to public attention the criminal human experiments conducted by Japan’s Unit 731. Citing U.S. government documents that he obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged Protocol 126, Seattle Times, University of Minnesota, phase II, Meaning of the Holocaust, bioethics conference, Japan's Unit 731 documents
  • 1990 FDA Issued a Waiver From Consent; Covert CDC Experimental Vaccine Test on Black / Latino Babies

    August 1, 2015 |

    1990: FDA issued a waiver from informed consent for military use of experimental drugs The FDA waiver from informed consent was to permit the DOD to use unapproved, experimental drugs and vaccines on enlisted soldiers—in violation of the foremost “absolutely essential” mandatory . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged MD, radiation experiments, Meryl Nass, FDA waiver consent, CDC unlicensed measles vaccine, Black & Latino babies, Dr. Joanne Hatim, CDC concealed evidence, autism risk EZ-HT Meales vaccine, WHO, CIOMS guidelines, IOM, Veterans at Risk, Eileen Welsome, Albuquerque Tribune, Hazel O'Leary, ACHRE, Desert Storm soldiers, chemical agents
  • 1990s Unethical Experiments at Prestigious Academic Institutions

    August 1, 2015 |

    1993 Kathryn Hamilton died 44 days after being enrolled in Protocol 681 at the Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle Siix days later, Hamilton’s doctors submitted the journal article documenting what they had known for more than a year: The primary rescue drug didn’t . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged Hutchinson Cancer Center, Kathryn Hamilton, Protocol 126, breast-cancer experiment, Seattle Times, University of Rochester, Nicole Wan, lidocaine
  • 1997 U.S. Government Experiments Violate Ethical Research Standards

    August 1, 2015 |

    The Declaration of Helsinki defines ethical research: “In any medical study, every patient – including those of a control group, if any – should be assured of the best proven diagnostic and therapeutic method.” (1964; 1996) That standard for ethical research was . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged Stanford, Government placebo-HIV experiments, Africa, psychiatric drug experiment, teenage prisoners
  • 1998: Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill

    August 1, 2015 |

    1998: Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill, a prize winning research expose by The Boston Globe In November, 1998, the first of a four-part series by Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong shed light on the abusive research parameters of non-therapeutic experiments conducted . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged Boston Globe, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, Greg & Bob Aller, Dr. Paul Applebaum, psychosis inducing experiment, Shalmah Prince, Research Risk, The Washington Post, UCLA
  • 1999: Harmful experiments on the most vulnerabe

    August 1, 2015 |

    1999: Experiments on the most vulnerable The research community has consistently demonstrated its disregard for individual patient-subjects’ safety.   1999: One hundred babies are test subjects of the drug, Propulsid One hundred infants were enrolled by Dr. Susan Orenstein at Children’s Hospital . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged Propulsid, NIMH, gene transfer, University of Pennsylvania, infant acid reflux, Jese Gelsinger, suspended 29 trials, FDA disregards suffering
  • 1999-2006: EPA Human Pollutant Experiments on Elderly Diabetics

    August 1, 2015 |

    According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s own scientific assessment reports (2004, 2009), Ultrafine particles (UFP) are considered more dangerous than PM2.5. EPA has determined that UFP can cause sudden death. “there is strong epidemiological evidence linking short-term (hours, days) exposure to PM2.5 . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged nanotoxicology, pollutant experiments on elderly, EPA unethical human experiments, EPA human pollution experiments Lisa Jackson, particulate matter, premature death, EPA pollutant expereiments
  • Government Experiments Increase Risk of Death

    August 1, 2015 |

    Several major government-sponsored experiments conducted at major academic institutions highlight increasingly inappropriate clinical trial designs that disregard the individual survival needs of critically ill patients who cannot give or refuse consent to research. Their incapacity is exploited in experiments that increase the . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged Informed Consent, IRB, ARDS Network, OHRP investigation, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, respiratory distress, critical care, serious deficiencies
  • 2000: “The Body Hunters” Exposed; 75 Experiments Halted at Oklahoma University

    August 1, 2015 |

    2000: Office of Protection from Research Risks (OPRR) was shifted from NIH jurisdiction to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and was renamed Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP). OHRP posts letters of determination following investigations into ethical violations. See . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged lawsuit, Washington Post, Dr. Michael McGee, Body Hunters, University of Oklahoma, 75 trials suspended, Deborah Nelson, Joe Stephens, Mary Flaherty, Holmesburg prisoners
  • 2001 Uninformed Consent; Healthy Volunteers Die

    August 1, 2015 |

    National Bioethics Advisory Committee Report: Ethical & Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants. The shift from “human subject” as defined by the Nuremberg Code to “participant” obscures the role & function of human subjects in medical experiments. Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged Johns Hopkins, children, Ellen Roche, healthy volunteers die, Case Western, Maryland Court of Appeals, landmark decision, Higgins/Grimes v. Kennedy Krieger, Elaine Holdern-Able, Seattle Times series, BPCA
  • 2003: VA 90-day national “stand down” for all human subject research

    August 1, 2015 |

    In 2003, the Veterans Affairs ordered a 90-day national “stand down” for all human subject research activities “in response to the death of subjects”; as well as use of “unqualified researchers.” In January 2004, the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E) initiated . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Government Agencies, Unethical Experiments
  • 2004: Big Pharma’s Shameful Secrets

    August 1, 2015 |

    2004: Traci Johnson, a 19-year-old student volunteer commits suicide in Eli Lilly’s laboratory Traci Johnson, a healthy 19-year-old Bible student who was a volunteer in Eli Lilly’s antidepressant trial of Cymbalta committed suicide at Eli Lilly’s laboratory. Ms. Johnson was found hanging . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments
  • Ethics of ARDS lung experiment debated

    August 1, 2015 |

    Alliance for Human Research Protection  Fri, 18 Jul 2003 Dear Dr. Campbell and others concerned about ethical research: This is in response to your July 11 comments objecting to AHRP’s criticism of the ethics of two controversial ARDS experiments sponsored by the . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Current Controversies, Unethical Experiments | Tagged Roche, John H. Noble, DHHS, Informed Consent, Clinical Practice, OHRP, Johns Hopkins, Bioethics, corrupt research practices, hazardous risk, vulnerable groups, IRB
  • “Scientific” Torture of POWs; Prisoners Sought as Guinea Pigs

    August 1, 2015 |

    2004: Abu Ghraib: photographic evidence of U.S. torture of prisoners of war In 2004, public attention was drawn to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq because of the graphic photographs documenting depraved sadistic cruelty. The photographs had been taken by soldiers who . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments
  • 2005: A National Scandal: AIDS Drug Experiments on Children in Foster Care

    August 1, 2015 |

    On March 10, 2004, The ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) filed a complaint with both the Food and Drug Administration and the federal Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) when we learned that 36 Phase I and Phase II AIDS drug . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Foster Care, Unethical Experiments, Children Victimized
  • 2005: Researchers Seek to Overturn 1978 Federal Restrictions Re: Use of Prisoners & Children as Subjects

    August 1, 2015 |

    Historically institutionalized children and prisoners have been exploited and subjected against their free will, as human guinea pigs in all manner of medical experimentation. Researchers’ regard “Criminals in our penitentiaries are fine experimental material . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Public Policy, Prisoners, Unethical Experiments
  • 2005: IOM Committee Considers Return to Prison Research

    August 1, 2015 |

    Today’s New York Times Magazine cover story, Planet of the Retired Chimpanzees By Charles Siebert, reports that chimpanzees who have served as subjects in biomedical research can look forward to being set free in one of 12 specially built chimp sanctuaries the . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Prisoners, AHRP Speaks Out, Unethical Experiments
  • Accountability Demanded – NYC Foster Children AIDS drug trials

    August 1, 2015 |

    The efforts of AHRP to hold the medical research community and government administrators accountable for unethical exploitation of vulnerable children in medical experiments conducted in violation of federal regulations. Continue reading →

    Categorized Immoral Experiments, Foster Care, Unethical Experiments, Children Victimized | Tagged FDA, GlaxoSmithKline, Informed Consent, Infants, Guinea Pigs, drug trials, toxic drugs, children died, Johns Hopkins, Child Abuse, World Health Organization
  • 2006: Fake Blood Experiments Without Consent: Is Your City Participating? FDA: Closed Door Meeting

    August 1, 2015 |

    Scientists and entrepreneurs have tried for years to develop a safe and universal blood substitute that did not spoil after 42 days. However, all such efforts have encountered serious safety problems.
    Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments, Unethical Experiments | Tagged Roche, FDA, Informed Consent, non-consensual, Trauma Patients, Senator Grassley, Northfield, Hypertension, The Wall Street Journal, JAMA, Bayer, non-consensual experiments
  • 2006: TGN142, A catastrophic experiment

    August 1, 2015 |

    TGN1412 stimulated the immune system’s T-cells to catastrophic levels; the experiment nearly killed all human subjects. All human subjects in a Phase I drug trial testing a genetically engineered experimental monoclonal antibody drug, TGN1412, face life-threatening multi-organ failure. Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged catastrophic TGN1412 experiment, collapse of science, collapse of ethics
  • UK Patients Used as Drug ‘Guinea Pigs" Guardian

    August 1, 2015 |

    UK Patients Used as Drug ‘Guinea Pigs”_Guardian Feb 9 2003 Medical fraud experts in the U.K. estimate that one per cent of all drug trials involve fraud, including failure to get proper consent from patients. An investigation by The Guardian / Observer . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Doctors/ Researchers, Unethical Experiments, Professional Fraud / Misconduct | Tagged Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Northfield, Guinea Pigs, drug trials, Bayer, human guinea pigs, doctors complicit, greed, medical fraud, UK
  • IOM Recommends Expanded Research on Prisoners; NEJM Editor Defends TGN1412

    August 1, 2015 |

    Editor of New England Journal of Medicine defends catastrophic experiments, and the Institute of Medicine expands prison drug trials. Question: How many times have these members of the elite put their own life at risk “to advance our knowledge?” Continue reading →

    Categorized Vulnerable Groups, Unethical Experiments | Tagged Institute of Medicine, expanded definition of "prisoner", prison experiments
  • Vera Institute of Justice Final Report (2009): 80 NYC Foster Children Died in AIDS Drug Trials

    August 1, 2015 |

    Background:  Between 1985 and 2005, at least 532 infants and children in New York City were conscripted as human subjects of clinical trials testing experimental AIDS drugs and vaccines. The New York City Agency for Child Services (ACS), the custodian of foster . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Immoral Experiments, Foster Care, Unethical Experiments, Children Victimized | Tagged Unethical Experiments, children victimized, AIDS drug experiments in babies, Vera Institute of Justice, NYC Foster Kids, AIDS drug experiments, children exploited, 80 deaths, NYC Administration Child Services, ACS, Associated Press, John Solomon, NY Times, Vera Institute Report
  • Deadly Medicine: Outsourced Clinical Trials

    October 1, 2013 |

    2010: U.S. Inspector General report: 78% of human subjects in clinical trials lived outside the U.S.  The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services report found that 78% of human subjects in drug trials lived outside the U.S where . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged 78% human subjects ovreseas, Bioethics Commission, Guatemala, babies & children harmed, 4, 142 Indian children, clinical trials outsourced, India's poor = Guinea Pigs
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    Obama Administration Propsal: Anthrax Vaccine Experiment on Children

    January 9, 2013 |

    Whose children are to be selected for morally and legally impermissible medical experiments? Continue reading →

    Categorized Current Controversies, Unethical Experiments | Tagged FDA, Informed Consent, Multiple Sclerosis, Guinea Pigs, Bioethics, anthrax
  • Federal Investigation of ARDS Study (Accute Respiratory Distress)

    October 26, 2006 |

    Federal Investigation of ARDS Study (Accute Respiratory Distress) OHRP conducted a compliance oversight evaluation of the 12 major sites participating in this clinical trial. OHRP’s determination letters documenting the outcomes of these evaluations can be viewed at the OHRP website at the . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged DHHS, Informed Consent, OHRP
  • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDSNet experiment criticized – OHRP

    July 29, 2002 |

    Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDSNet experiment criticized – OHRP Fri, 28 Feb 2003 An Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) study conducted between 1996 and 1999, on critically ill patients at 20 medical facilities (14 major research centers belonging to the ARDS . . . Continue reading →

    Categorized Unethical Experiments | Tagged DHHS, Informed Consent, OHRP, New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM, Statin

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