A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed On Our Children And Other Innocent People - Plot & Excerpts
I felt it imperative that I include a narrative of the experiments performed on our Servicemen and women, prisoners, and patients in our hospitals. Many of these people will never know why they suffer a variety of debilitating diseases without this knowledge. In some cases surviving relatives of those who died as a result of these experiments may at last be able to understand what happened to their loved ones. In still other cases, offspring who have been born with birth defects, may find some answers. Members of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments said: “That based on interviews, some tentative conclusions may be drawn regarding the ethical milieu of medical research in the 1940’s and ‘50’s. In the absence of an established code of conduct, other influences guided investigator behavior. Some perhaps caught up in the excitement of research or the desire to advance their career, used patients as subjects of investigation without their knowledge or consent. Others relied on the power and prestige of their position to convince subjects to participate even when benefit was questionable or nonexistent, and even in the absence of complete information.”222 How many of you had to pay the price for this type of thinking?
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