Re: HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Donald A. McClure DX-DO P940 7-3243 wrote:

> AHHH! Correct me if I am wrong, but were we not at war in 1943?

---We were also at war at the time of the plutonium injection experiments
(all but one) in 1944-1945.
> 
> At 01:00 PM 11/22/96 -0600, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> Donald A. McClure, Los Alamos National Laboratory, DX-DO
> Los Alamos, NM 87544, Voice 505/667-3243, FAX 505/665-3359
>