Re: HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS

[Keith Welch <welch@CEBAF.GOV>]

At 10:44 AM 11/22/96 -0600, you wrote:

>---How about drafting men into the army and sending them into situations
>where there is a good chance for them to be killed or badly wounded, all
>without any informed consent. In the medical experiments, there was no
>harm being done to the patients.


Apples and oranges isn't it?  Drafting people into the armed services for
purposes of national defense is a "little" different from taking advantage
of a patient's trust to administer un-needed agents for purposes of
scientific inquiry.
Keith Welch
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Newport News VA
welch@cebaf.gov