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| CIA experimented on terror suspects |
| 2010-06-11 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] The Physicians for Human Rights, a rights watchdog, says the Bush administration has run experiments on terrorism suspects. Physicians for Human Rights released a report this week outlining allegations of illegal human subject research and experimentation on detainees during the Bush era. On Thursday, the group said that along with seven other organizations it filed a complaint on Wednesday with the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research Protections. The group says that the declassified documents show "Medical personnel were required to monitor all waterboarding practices and collect detailed medical information that was used to design, develop and deploy subsequent waterboarding procedures." The group claims that the procedure was not to safeguard the inmates' health but to make the techniques more efficient and provide them with legal alibi. The CIA has rejected the allegations. There have been numerous reports of human experiments performed in the United States --dating back to the 1950s. The reports allege the practices were often conducted illegally and without the knowledge or consent of the test subjects. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 There is a big difference between what scientists do and what doctors do, although a few doctors are true scientists. Scientists do experiments to discover cause and effect, and to discover techniques and substances that will break the connection between the two. Doctors, like engineers, apply the learnings of science, the cleverer ones using the principles in novel ways -- when doctors do it they call it "off-label use of medicines". And no, trying a second thing when the first didn't work is not scientific experimentation, although it is art. I do not say this to denigrate doctors and engineers; it's just that the the drive is different. The self-labelled Physicians for Human Rights clearly did not take full advantage of their expensive educations if they mistake observation for experimentation. Not to mention that having a doctor present during the waterboarding was a protection for the recipients, to prevent the activity from becoming dangerous or true torture. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-06-11 12:55 |
| #6 Physicians, of course, never experiment on patients. /endsarc |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-06-11 05:19 |
| #5 Micheliana's vs Lean Cuisine? How dreadful. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-06-11 04:43 |
| #4 Of course that leaves the question: |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-06-11 00:45 |
| #3 That explains the toothpaste felching. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-06-11 00:45 |
| #2 Of course, they ended up defecating out of their mouths. I believe that was the intended result. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2010-06-11 00:26 |
| #1 Did anyone publish the results on what happened when they installed those terrorists' gut backwards? |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-06-11 00:18 |