That article is exactly on point. There is a process in place for the express reason of slowing and blocking anything that will bring about positive, meaningful solutions and potential cures to the human condition.
That article is exactly on point. There is a process in place for the express reason of slowing and blocking anything that will bring about positive, meaningful solutions and potential cures to the human condition.
Because the old state of affairs had desperate people being experimented on by opportunists, charlatans and fraudsters for money. There's work to be done balancing the equities of people with terminal diagnoses but lets not pretend there's no point to the roadblocks to human experimentation on the dying.
That sounds about right. Lots of abuses have been perpetrated by opportunists, charlatans, fraudsters all for money, as you put it. I just want to make sure we correctly distinguish what is meant by "opportunists, charlatans, fraudsters."
In the spirit of full transparency, I've listed some of the most well-known cases. Others, due to the Iron Curtain and similar curtains are hard to document, due to lack of visual inspection. Just the same I've listed them for transparency's sake:
Western Bloc:
Tuskegee Syphilis Study (US, 1932–1972)
Project MKUltra (US/CIA, 1953–1973) Human radiation experiments (US, 1940s–1970s)
Porton Down nerve/chemical tests (UK, 1950s–1960s)
Ewen Cameron brainwashing/LSD experiments (Canada, 1950s–1960s)
Eastern Bloc:
Soviet Gulag prisoner chemical/medical experiments (USSR, 1930s–1950s)
Punitive psychiatry experiments on dissidents (USSR, 1950s–1980s)
Pre-1940s Germany:
Nazi eugenics forced sterilizations (1933 Hereditary Health Law; ~400,000 citizens)
Pre-1940s Japan:
Unit 731 biological/chemical experiments (est. 1936; pathogen injections, early vivisections on prisoners)
Axis Powers:
Nazi Germany: concentration camp medical experiments (Dachau/Auschwitz hypothermia, twins, sterilization; mainly 1941–1945)
Imperial Japan: Unit 731 & affiliates (vivisections, plague/anthrax tests; ~3,000+ direct deaths, 200k+ from field use)
Fascist Italy: No major documented equivalent programs
Asia:
Japanese-occupied territories (China, Manchuria, Korea, etc.): Unit 731 satellites (biological warfare tests on local citizens/POWs)
By the way, all the above instances are part of history.
Greed is greed, whether "Capitalist, Socialist or Communist-oriented." In my view there is no distinction between modern day and historic "opportunists, charlatans, and fraudsters." Greed is Greed!