“This year, the U.K. has had more than 1,200 cases of measles, after a record number of nearly 2,000 cases last year. The country once recorded only several dozen cases every year. It now ranks second in Europe, behind only Romania.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Human testing
East Germany allowed Western pharma firms to test new drugs in hospital patients without consent
Looks like news of the Nuremberg Code might not have traveled the 317 km from Nuremberg to Berlin until 1996. Continue reading
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North Carolina House to vote on ‘puppy mill’ bill — Meanwhile, bill to protect humans from illegal EPA diesel exhaust experiments put on hold
The puppy mill bill would accomplish little if anything. The EPA bill would protect people from rogue government. Guess which one advances… Continue reading
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EPA fights human testing FOIA request: Demands exorbitant fees for recent, easily accessible docs
The agency continues to obstruct independent investigation of its illegal human testing activities. Continue reading
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EPA fails to explain deletion of illegal diesel experiment on children from data base
In February we FOIA-ed EPA for an explanation of why/how a report describing an illegal experiment exposing children to diesel exhaust was deleted from its data base. EPA responded to our request today. Continue reading
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Experiment involving 1,300 premature infants ‘failed to adequately inform parents’ of treatment risks
“They went out of their way to tell you that your kid might benefit. But they didn’t give the flip side, which is that there is a chance your kid might end up worse off. You can’t have it both ways.” Continue reading
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Potential bad news for EPA human researchers: Plenty of prison beds projected in North Carolina for next 5 years
The North Carolina Senate has completed the fiscal impacts analysis of Senate Bill 187, the bill to make EPA’s PM2.5 air pollution experiments on humans a felony (on par with assassinating the Governor). Continue reading
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EPA to human guinea pig in air pollution experiment: ‘There is a possibility you may die from this’
Does EPA really expect people to risk their lives for $12/hour in non-therapeutic experiments? Will Gina McCarthy be asked about this at her confirmation hearing? Continue reading
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Bad blood of research: Do human experimenters take the ‘informed consent’ requirement seriously?
A psychiatrist recommends a patient for a University of Minnesota antipsychotic clinical trial — even though one week earlier the psychiatrist recommended the patient be involuntarily committed. The patient subsequently committed suicide, possibly but not certainly because of the medication. Question: How could patient possibly have provided “informed consent” to participate in the clinical trial? Continue reading
Posted in Human testing, Pharmaceuticals
EPA un-scrubs data base of experiment exposing children to diesel exhaust
Presumably our FOIA request asking who ordered the data deletion caused a rethink at EPA. Continue reading
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Must-Watch Video: NBC-17 reports on human testing personal injury claim against EPA
NBC-17 investigative reporter Charlotte Huffman nails this report on the EPA human testing scandal. Continue reading
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EPA sued for $2 million by human testing victim; Injured by exposures to high levels of chlorine, diesel exhaust and ozone — without informed consent
Here’s the Greenwire report. Continue reading
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Chlorine gas possibly used in Syria — but definitely used on people by the EPA: Another shocking human experiment
While chlorine gas may have been used as a weapon by one side or the other in Syria, it was definitely used on people by the EPA. Continue reading
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Could a NC Law Put EPA Doctor-Researchers in Jail?
“Will a state be willing to act against the Environmental Protection Agency’s practice of exposing humans to diesel exhaust emissions, when medical authorities and the courts have refused to intervene?” Continue reading
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UWashington Letter to Human Guinea Pigs: Oops…we exposed you to a carcinogen!
Last October, the University of Washington retro-actively informed its human study subjects in an EPA-funded study going back 10+ years that its researchers had exposed them to a substance classified by the World Health Organization as “carcinogenic to humans.” Continue reading
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EPA human testing scandal extends to University of Washington; Study subjects not told diesel exhaust can kill
University of Washington researchers have violated the Nuremberg Code and the federal regulations governing the conduct of human experiments, according to new documents obtained by JunkScience.com through the Freedom of Information Act. The air pollution research in question was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Continue reading
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NBC-17 Investigates: State bill could shut down EPA experiments
A North Carolina state law could make on-going EPA experiments at UNC-Chapel Hill a felony. Continue reading
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North Carolina bill would make EPA human experiments a felony
Just introduced North Carolina Senate Bill 187 would make EPA’s PM2.5 experiments on humans a serious felony. Continue reading
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EPA scrubs database of air pollution experiment on children?
EPA Stalin-izes an experiment exposing children to diesel exhaust. Continue reading
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Study: Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased deaths after heart attacks
Quite a claim considering that the researchers have no idea how much PM2.5 any subject was exposed to and no medical evidence anyone was killed by PM2.5. Also of note, the EPA-funded University of Rochester tested PM<sub<2.5 on heart attack victims circa 2007-2008. Continue reading
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