The human medical experimentation comparison chart: Nazi Germany vs. present-day

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March 7 2006

The human medical experimentation comparison chart: Nazi Germany vs.

present-day Big Pharma

 

Historians usually refer to Nazi Germany's IG Farben as the epitome of

bad medicine, where horrifying medical experiments were routinely

carried out on innocent civilians. Most people accept the history of

IG Farben as true, yet those same people are reluctant to admit that

today's modern pharmaceutical industry is not only directly descended

from IG Farben, it still follows many of the same inhumane practices.

 

In this comparison chart, we take a closer look at the similarities

between the medical experimentation carried out in Nazi Germany vs.

the practices of Big Pharma in the United States today. The times have

changed, and medical experimentation has a prettier face, but it's

still the same horrifying practice of exploiting the most vulnerable

citizens in society to outright criminal experiments with pharmaceuticals.

 

Be sure to also read the Human Medical Experimentation Timeline to get

the big picture on the true history of human experiments in modern

medicine.

 

 

 

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Then: In Nazi Germany Now: In the United States

IG Farben Big Pharma

The American Chemistry Council

 

Concentration camps Experimental drug testing centers

New York City children's homes (during the late 1980s and 1990s)

For the EPA's proposed CHEERS study: Health care centers in Duvall

County, Fla.

 

SS Doctors " Poorly trained and unlicensed clinicians "

Workers in New York City children's homes

 

Concentration camp inmates (Jews -- including Jewish children,

gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill individuals, mentally challenged

individuals) Experimental drug test subjects (poor people --

including children in poor families, orphans and foster care children;

immigrants; mentally ill and mentally challenged individuals who are

unable to hold down a regular job)

 

For CHEERS: Children born to low-income, minority families

Concentration camp scientists forcing inmates to take pills and

powders, or simply just injecting them Giving potential test subjects

long forms written in language they may not understand (either because

they are immigrants or because it's written in obscure technical

jargon) as " informed consent "

 

In the New York City children's homes: Forced noncompliant children to

take experimental AIDS drugs by feeding them medication through tubes

placed in their stomachs

 

Test subjects " paid " for use of their bodies by being allowed to

live Test subjects going to experimental drug centers paid for use of

their bodies with " as little as $25 per day or as much as $6,900 for

seven months, " according to Bloomberg reporters Evans and Michael Smith

For the low-income families who were to take part in the EPA's

proposed CHEERS: $970, a free video camera, a T-shirt and a framed

certificate of appreciation

 

IG Farben " daughter " companies like Bayer have worked with the German

government to set up a compensation fund for survivors of

concentration camp medical experiments, but some survivors have

experienced difficulty getting the money owed to them. SFBC: Three

test subjects who revealed the details of the potentially exploitative

experimental drug test industry to the media were threatened with

deportation, unless they signed statements denying the validity of the

resulting articles.

 

New York City ACS: Though openly denying wrongdoing, ACS officials

have both analyzed their own records for information on the extent and

ethics of the experimental AIDS drug tests on foster children and

contracted the Vera Institute of Justice to conduct an independent review.