Reply #10: Like the repukes, these people think they're better than others... [View All]

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... Like the NAZIs, they believe some human beings are untermenschen.

INVOLUNTARY HUMAN SCIENTIFIC
EXPERIMENTATION

prepared by

Morton Sklar
Director, World Organization Against Torture USA

EXCERPT...

Based on the Advisory Committee's research, six broad categories of experiments can be identified:

* Experiments aimed at determining the danger to workers assembling nuclear weapons from ingestion, inhalation or injection of irradiated materials. These experiments involved total body irradiation and the injection of radioactive isotopes into human subjects.

* Experiments aimed at determining the effects of exposure to radiation on soldiers serving either as part of the crew of a proposed nuclear powered aircraft or on a nuclear battlefield. These experiments involved total body irradiation, injection of radioactive isotopes, ingestion of irradiated materials by human subjects and exposure of subjects to atomic clouds during and after bomb detonations.

* Development of nuclear weapons. These experiments involved atmospheric releases of radiation without the knowledge of exposed civilian population.

* Studies on the dispersal, fallout, biological intake and decay of radioactive materials following a nuclear explosion. These experiments involved atmospheric releases of radiation, ingestion of radioactive and exposure to atomic clouds.

* Studies of the effects of radiation on "radiosensitive" malignancies such as leukemia and lymphoma, and in the performance of bone marrow transplantations. These experiments involved total body irradiation. They included irradiation of 88 cancer patients at the University of Cincinnati alone.

* Experiments regarding the potential effects of radiation on astronauts. These experiments involved partial body irradiation.

Among the tests were the 1963 exposure of 131 prison inmates in Oregon to massive doses of radiation to their sexual organs, and subsequent vasectomies that were performed to prevent the subsequent birth of malformed children from contaminated sperm. On 10 February 1995, The New York Times also reported (p. A12) that "about 9,000 Americans, including children and newborns were used in 154 human radiation tests" sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission, with additional tests being conducted by other governmental agencies. Subsequent reports released since that time suggest that the experiments and their impacts on human were far greater than originally indicated. The extreme danger posed by these experiments, and the frequent absence of informed consent measures in their implementation, place them in violation of the scientific experimentation provisions of Article 7 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 1 of CAT. Although these events took place before the U.S. ratification of these instruments, the steps taken by the U.S. government to ensure that they are not repeated, to release full information on the tests and their impacts, and to provide compensation to those persons who were harmed by them, are highly pertinent to the question of current U.S. compliance.

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http://www.woatusa.org/CAT/catreport/science.html