In June 2015, the UK Guardian published previously classified CIA documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. For the first time, sections of a 1987 CIA document that sets forth explicit guidelines for “human experimentation” that, according to CIA spokesperson, were in force – before, during and after CIA’s post-9/11…
Stephen A. Krahling and Joan A. Wlochowski, former Merck virologists blew the whistle by filing a qui tam action lawsuit — U.S. v Merck & Co. — in August 2010. The scientists allege that the efficacy tests for the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine (MMR) were faked. The document was unsealed…
Dr. Suzanne Humphries discusses Vaccine Safety We post the review and summary of Dr. Humpries’ video presentation in Sweden (2014) about vaccine safety as reported by Health Impact News. Our only contribution was the addition of a photo of (then) Secretary of Health and Human Services who was asked by…
“Racialized science” is the misuse of scientific techniques to support racist hypotheses which are then used as a pretext to justify racism and discrimination “One aspect of the chemical warfare research program on mustard gas involved race-based human experimentation. In at least nine research projects conducted during the 1940s, scientists…
In his new book, America’s Bitter Pill (2015) Steven Brill explains why the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) won’t work. Brill’s damning indictment is based on the fact that this market driven system, with all its profiteering and run away costs in place, will fail utterly to contain healthcare costs. He conducted in-depth…
Who determines whether a medical intervention falls within the parameters of an experiment? Historical case is examined by Maria Rentetzi, who addresses the issue in “The Women Radium Dial Painters as Experimental Subjects (1920-1990), or; What Counts as Human Experimentation?” She notes that the plight of the women and their…
Peter Aleff, our guest contributor whose scathing, detailed insightful critique of unethical experiments, in particular, the contentious government sponsored SUPPORT experiment that put premature babies lives and well-being at increased risk without disclosing the true nature of the experiment to the parents. Tuskegee-Style Medical Deceit Still Overrules Human Research Protections:…
The UK Independent reports, “Thousands of Teenage Girls Report Feeling Seriously Ill After Routine School Cancer Vaccination” ( Sept 16, 2015) The past four years have turned into a nightmare for some young girls who were vaccinated with the HPV vaccine: “Emily Ryalls is one of the thousands of teenage…
The following news report was submitted by Meryl Nass, MD, member of AHRP Board Vaccine injuries are real. They can be serious and often fail to respond to treatment. The most serious injuries are usually to the brain. Vaccine injuries may cause death. The US federal vaccine injury compensation program has paid…
“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 immutable standard: “The voluntary consent of the human…
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 often exploited in experiments that disregard their safety…
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, Powell alleged that the U.S. government had pardoned…
