By Dr. Mercola One of the most frustrating characteristics of multi-national drug corporations is their commitment to the corporate mantra of maximizing profits for their shareholders at any cost, including that of human lives. The testing of dangerous drugs and vaccines on children is an area that is particularly risk-filled… The Nuremberg Codei provides ethical guidelines for […]
Non-Consenting Adults
By Harriet A. Washington The Nuremberg Code, set up to protect the human subjects of research, is being routinely ignored. Sixty-five years ago in Nuremberg, Germany, American prosecutors confronted the Nazi physicians who had subjected Jews and others to a murderous regime of medical research. The “doctors’ trial” was the first of the war crimes […]
VRM: Human Rights & Voluntary Consent
By Joel Lord “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962 NUREMBERG CODE: (adopted August 19, 1947) LAW #10 – VOLUNTARY CONSENT 1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have […]
Research ethics require action and vigilance
Allen M. Hornblum is the author of Acres of Skin and Sentenced to Science and is working on a book dealing with institutionalized children as research test subjects. This month in the nation’s capital, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues heard testimony on human-subject protection in the aftermath of recent revelations that […]
