Reply #25: Speaking of Fascism's 'Scientific' Face

[Octafish]

Hey, Wilms! Don't mean to sound redundant, but this stuff about how some modern scientists work bears fleshing out...

Fascism's "scientific" face

by Tom Burghardt, Editor, Anti-fascist Info-Bulletin

Under cover of "national security", gruesome Nazi-like projects were carried out by the US National Security State throughout the Cold War period and beyond.

EXCERPT...

According to Tierney, Neel and his colleagues injected the Yanomami with an experimental vaccine for measles — with predictable and disastrous results.

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The resulting epidemic proved fatal "to hundreds, perhaps thousands" of Amazonian tribespeople. Even after the epidemic began, according to the book, Neel prevented the afflicted from receiving medical treatment.

In a circular letter to members of the American Anthropological Association, Terence Turner of Cornell University and Leslie E Sponsel of the University of Hawaii-Manoa infer from Tierney's reporting that Neel caused the measles epidemic in order to test his eugenic theories about the evolutionary utility of male domination.

SNIP...

There is also evidence that Neel and others, in collaboration with corrupt Venezuelan officials and US multinational mining corporations conspired to "open-up" Yanomami lands to illegal gold-mining concessions with the anthropologists providing necessary "cover" for developers.

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At the very least, those who conducted genocidal experiments on the Yanomami people must be brought to book for their crimes. But those who funded and clandestinely approved of such "research" as a means to preserve a criminal American capitalist order rooted in a history of genocide, slavery and plunder must also be exposed, confronted and brought to
account.

CONTINUED...

http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve3/1019fasc.html