E.P.A. Weighs Pesticide Tests on Humans

[Guest guest]

I usually don't print political stuff on this message group, but something

recently has come to my attention which is so horrifying in regard to

medical and scientific ethics that I'm breaking the rule on this one.

 

Not since the end of WWII has the world been faced with anything as Nazi as

this proposal to test pesticides on human beings.

 

In fairness I want to point out that at the same time Nazi Germany was

conducting horrendous experiments on humans, " scientists " in the U.S., Great

Britain, etc. also were conducting their own highly unethical tests on

humans. Unethical testing on humans as continued sporadically in the years

since in the U.S. and Britain as well as other countries. But the persons

responsible for inhumane and unethical tests never felt comfortable

advertising what they were doing and wanted to do. Until now, that is.

This says a lot about how far conditions of justice and concern for others

have deteriorated in the U.S.

 

This also says a lot about how much establishment medicine has deteriorated

in the U.S. and why more and more Americans fear doctors and establishment

medicine.

 

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" Unemployed? Bush Incorporated has a job for you: Eating pesticides. Yummy!

Where do we sign up? " (buzzflash comment)

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/28/politics/28PEST.html?ex=1007978704 & ei=1 & en=f

 

Here is more on Bu$h Inc. ok'ing pesticide testing on humans:

 

E.P.A. Weighs Pesticide Tests on Humans

 

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

 

" WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 — The Bush administration is considering allowing data

from human testing of toxic pesticides to be part of regulatory decisions, a

step that would run counter to a Clinton administration scientific advisory

panel. Critics say it would violate the Nuremberg Code adopted after World

War II. "

 

Note to readers whose schooling did not include information on the Nuremberg

Code, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, or Nazi atorcities committed in the

name of " science " and racial purity:

 

The Nuremberg Code:

 

http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/Nuremberg_Code.htm

 

The reason why the Nuremberg Code governing experimentation on humans was

adapted:

 

http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/index.html

 

Testimony from survivors of Nazi experimentation:

 

http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/testimony.htm

 

More from " E.P.A. Weighs Pesticide Tests on Humans:

 

" Stephen L. Johnson, assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection

Agency's office of prevention, pesticides and toxic substances, said the

agency had not made a final policy decision on the matter. But he said he

had discussed it with the agricultural and pesticide industries and public

interest groups, and " we're trying to determine what makes sense from a

scientific and an ethics point of view. " "

 

The fact that Stephen L. Johnson would even consider that this type of

experimentation on humans could be ethical indicates that he is totally

clueless when it comes to history, to the Nuremberg Code, to the dangers

posed by pesticides, and to ethical considerations, and is totally

unqualified to hold the post he does at the E.P.A.

 

More from the article:

 

" Mr. Johnson said the agency was weighing the matter because " the

agricultural community believed that the agency should use the best

available scientific information before making decisions and that the best

available scientific information included whatever data was available on

humans. " "

 

So you're going to sicken and kill human beings just to determine how much

pesticide it takes to sicken and kill human beings? The Nazis did

experiments just like these on humans to determine how much of certain

poisonous gases it would take to sicken and kill humans. Bush Inc. is

claiming that Saddam Hussein does these types of experiments. Tell me, what

is the difference between what Bush Inc. wants to allow and what Saddam

does?

 

" Ray McAllister, vice president for science and regulatory affairs for the

American Crop Protection Association, said, " When the need exists, the tests

can be very important for understanding the safety of a particular product. "

He also said the risks to volunteers " is minuscule; it's actually much lower

than the risks of pharmaceuticals. " "

 

I want to point out here that the U.S. government and industry have very

poor track records when it comes to being truthful about the crippling and

even lethal effects of pesticides, other chemicals, and even

pharmaceuticals. The way this " heads we win, tails you lose " scam works is

that the U.S. government and industry labels adverse reactions to chemicals

and drugs as " psychological " and claims that the health problems the person

is suffering is due to the person being unable to handle psychological

stress.

 

Check out the Insurance Justice website and do a search for CFIDS (Chronic

Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome), CFS, or judydoc for detailed

information on how the government ignores evidence from around the world as

to CFIDS being a physical condition and keeps insisting that it is

psychological. There is a clause in most disability insurance policies that

state that if a condition is psychological the insurance company only has to

pay for two years (instead of a lifetime or until a cure or adequate

treatment is found).

 

http://www.insurancejustice.com/

 

The same thing scam is pulled on service men and women who contacted Gulf

War Syndrome. Check out the National Gulf War Resource Center:

 

http://www.ngwrc.org/contents.htm

 

Check out the " Network TV " section of the North Carolina Chemical Injury

Network website for information on " Junk Journalism " by super-ho John

Stossel:

 

http://www.ncchem.com/

 

More from the E.P.A. article:

 

" Critics say the agency is being pushed by the pesticide industry for

commercial gain — not a good enough reason for humans to swallow known

poisons, even if paid.

 

" " There's no reason to do this, " said Dr. Herbert Needleman, a professor of

psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh, and a member of

the Clinton scientific advisory panel. The panel concluded that human tests

could be done only if there were a compelling public health need.

 

" " This is a power move on the part of the pesticide manufacturers, and the

E.P.A. administrator and others rolled over, " Dr. Needleman said.

 

" Erik Olson, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an

environmental watchdog group, said that allowing human tests would violate

the Nuremberg Code.

 

" " The Nuremberg Code says you can only do human testing if it yields

fruitful results for the good of society that you can't achieve any other

way, " Mr. Olson said. That has traditionally been interpreted to mean drugs

that might benefit the test subjects and society at large. " To test

something that's a known poison merely to advance corporate profits is not

appropriate. " "

 

That's what it's all about and the only thing that matters to Bush, Inc.:

PROFITS.

 

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Intro to Doctors Trial from Nuremberg War Crimes Trials:

 

" On December 9, 1946, an American military tribunal opened criminal

proceedings against 23 leading German physicians and administrators for

their willing participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity. In

Nazi Germany, German physicians planned and enacted the " Euthanasia "

Program, the systematic killing of those they deemed " unworthy of life. " The

victims included the mentally retarded, the institutionalized mentally ill,

and the physically impaired. Further, during World War II, German physicians

conducted pseudoscientific medical experiments utilizing thousands of

concentration camp prisoners without their consent. Most died or were

permanently crippled as a result. Most of the victims were Jews, Poles,

Russians, and also Roma (Gypsies). After almost 140 days of proceedings,

including the testimony of 85 witnesses and the submission of almost 1,500

documents, the American judges pronounced their verdict on August 20, 1947.

Sixteen of the doctors were found guilty. Seven were sentenced to death.

They were executed on June 2, 1948. "

 

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Testimony from some of the victims of Nazi " scientific " experimentation on

humans:

 

" TESTIMONY ENTERED AS EVIDENCE IN THE MEDICAL CASE

[from National Archives Record Group 238, M887]

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" FATHER LEO MIECHALOWSKI

Born March 22, 1909, in Babrzezne, Poland

Father Miechalowski, a Roman Catholic Priest, was arrested along with other

Polish priests by the Germans after the invasion of Poland in 1939. He was

deported to the Sachsenhausen camp, north of Berlin, and in 1940 was

transferred to Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Germany. While in

Dachau, Father Miechalowski was selected against his will as a subject for

medical experiments. He was intentionally infected with Malaria so that

various compounds could be tested. Further, he was subjected to hypothermia

experiments. American forces liberated Dachau in April 1945. On December 21,

1946, Father Miechalowski testified for the prosecution at the Doctors Trial

about the medical experiments before an American military tribunal in

Nuremberg, Germany.

 

" VLADISLAVA KAROLEWSKA

Born March 15, 1909, in Yeroman, Poland

Before World War II, Vladislava Karolewska was a school teacher in Grudenz.

In 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland, she moved to Lublin to live with

her sister. Karolewska joined the anti-German resistance in Poland and

served as a courier. The Germans arrested her in February 1941. She was

interrogated in Lublin and then deported to Ravensbrueck concentration camp,

north of Berlin in Germany. There, Karolewska was selected against her will

as a subject in bone regeneration experiments. After Soviet forces liberated

Ravensbrueck, Karolewska returned to Poland, moving to Warsaw. On December

20, 1946, Karolewska testified for the prosecution at the Doctors Trial

before an American military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. "

 

Submitted by mad_as_h

 

 

 

 

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