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Originally Posted by matthew330
........The children in the 5-10 age range were informed of the risks and given their assent. No need to make it sound like the government took their cavalry, lassoed homeless children, and forced a drug down their throat. Laws are in place to protect research participants, occasionally mistakes are made, very occasionally laws are intentionally broken.
Astrahl, this is my job as well. I have a list of questions about the way this trial was run that the article did not address. Host, whether or not the US government research operates on a level comparable to Nazi Germany is not one of them. If your overzealousness to make this comparison weren't so routine, it'd be sickening.
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1.) One messenger shot.....(me)....thankyouverymuch!
2.) THe medical providers (experimenters) "informed" children in the 5-10 age range of risks, that included putting dangerous drugs into their bodies in doses not even approved for adults, who had themselves experienced organ damage or hastened deaths as a result. They put these drug or chemical cocktail doses into the bodies of children and infants and, instead of following a clear cut federal legal and ethical criteria, they explain that they "informed them".
3.) Even at some prestigious medical instituitions now, well after the fact, the defense given by spokespersons to the AP reporter is that these "providers" do not think that appointing independent guardians is required. Where is the assurance that this illegal abuse is not ongoing?
4.) The "investigations" are not being done by criminal investigators or prosecutors, when this is a question of child abuse, suspicion of manslaughter, and the opinions of medical ethics professionals that laws intended to protect the rights of children were broken.
5.) The article clearly states that some foster children, illegally unprotected by law mandated, independent guardians, were enrolled in the riskiest, phase I and pahse II trials. Your reaction is to personalize my comparison of Nazi medical experiment abuse on children with what is reported in this AP news expose. We will let the members here judge whether your remarks or mine are appropriate.