1954: Polio Vaccine
1954: Polio vaccine was tested on one million children aged six to nine. In April 1955 the vaccine was deemed “safe and effective” by NIH; the vaccine was hailed as a medical triumph of the 20th century.
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1976: “We don’t want to kill science but we don’t want science to kill, mangle and abuse us.”
1976: National Urban League held a conference on Human Experimentation, announcing: “We don’t want to kill science but we don’t want science to kill, mangle and abuse us.”
1969: San Antonio Contraceptive Study conducted on 70 poor Mexican-American women
San Antonio Contraceptive Study conducted on 70 poor Mexican-American women. Half received oral contraceptives the other placebo. In the middle of the study the two groups were switched — none were informed that they may not receive active contraceptives. [NCBI-NIH]
1947: U.S. Government-Sponsored Human Experiments Disregard Nuremberg Standards
American public health officials and the medical community pretended that the Nuremberg Code did not apply to American medical researchers. The assumption was that the physicians who had conducted heinous experiments had been Nazi doctors in Germany; and they rationalized that most of the rogue doctors had been held accountable…
Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light
"Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates." Associated Press, Feb 27, 2011
Harvard-affiliated gene studies in China face federal inquiry
Harvard-affiliated gene studies in China face federal inquiry – Boston Globe. August 1, 2000. Harvard-affiliated gene studies in China face federal inquiry, by Deborah Nelson. Genetic research in China is booming. The biotech industry, in collaboration with scientists from America’s elite research centers & the U.S. government, is looking at…
1939: “The Monster Experiment”
The “Monster Experiment” was conceived by and conducted under the supervision of Dr. Wendell Johnson, one of the nation’s most prominent speech pathologists. The experiment induced stuttering in twenty-two children living at the Iowa Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home in Davenport. It was designed to test Dr. Johnson’s theory about the cause…