Bushco wants to OK testing poisons on humans

[central scrutinizer]

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0328/tracy.php

excerpt:

The Bush administration is now moving to endorse the testing of noxious and lethal chemicals on human beings. Since this spring, despite rife opposition from the medical community, the Environmental Protection Agency has quietly begun lifting a 1998 ban on accepting such research. Once the prohibition is gone, which will likely happen next year, chemical companies will have the full support of the federal government to dose healthy young men and women with the latest insecticides, rodenticides, and fungicides.

This marks the second round in a fiery debate over pesticide tests using people. In the late 1990s, a group of doctors and public health advocates noticed that pesticide companies were conducting a growing number of these trials as part of attempts to get government approval. The advocates railed against the EPA and balked at the agency's failure to enforce ethical standards. The "EPA does not routinely require companies who conduct human experiments to . . . follow any ethical protocol," noted a 1998 report from the Environmental Working Group.

Later that year, with criticism mounting, the agency prohibited its offices from using human data in new pesticide registrations. Some companies continued the testing, however, saying it was necessary to determine health risks. But they also preferred that method because they got more favorable readings from dosing people as opposed to lab rats.

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[kimchi]

1. This is just sick!

How desperate for money do you have to be to allow chemical companies to dose you up with poison? What a sad sad world we live in. It is bad enough to do it to rats, but people? Compassionate conservatism in action once again.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Achtung!!!

The Fourth REICH is coming!!! God save us all!!!

(satire)

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Did it say whether these tests are voluntary?

Well, someone should ask.

[soothsayer]

4. They're already allowed to do this to miliatary personnel

Without telling them (much less asking them). And you better believe they do it!

[goore2004]

5. Why would you need to put poison on people for a test?

If it's poison, you know it's bad.
If these stupid people want to be lab rats, who are we to stop them.

[havocmom]

6. Just like lab rats, the people won't have a choice about this

US military personell are not the owners of their own bodies while in the service.

Mighty easy to slip some new bio poisons into a vaccination program.
Balk at getting the shot? Go to jail.
One of many links:
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/