Wednesday, December 01, 2004

NYC Uses Foster Children as Guinea Pigs

Sometimes when I predict the return of widespread psychosurgery and forced drugging, people think I am exaggerating because I'm traumatized and biased by what happened to my grandmother. Then a story like this comes up and once again we learn that medical ethics are just as poor now as they were 50 or 100 years ago.
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New York's HIV experiment
By Jamie Doran Reporter/producer, Guinea Pig Kids
HIV positive children and their loved ones have few rights if they choose to battle with social work authorities in New York City.

Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home.
But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic.
"We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of this was because of their HIV infection."
In fact it was the drugs that were making the children ill and the children had been enrolled on the secret trials without their relatives' or guardians' knowledge.

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