Very disturbing article about the EPA's policies on Human Experimentation

[Matariki]

This is *very* disturbing, to say the least: http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=948

EPA formally legalized human subject experimentation on February 6, 2007, but prior to that, the Bush administration conducted and encouraged human subject studies on a case-by-case basis. The most notorious case involved the Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study (bearing the anomalous acronym CHEERS) in which Florida parents would have been paid to spray pesticides in the rooms of their children under age three. EPA designed the study with funding from the American Chemistry Council, which represents 135 companies including pesticide manufacturers.

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1. It's the 4th Reich, I tell ya

k&r

[Matariki]

2. That first paragraph alone is stomach turning

"EPA’s latest effort pointedly avoids laying out concrete rules on acceptable risk to human subjects, particularly children, use of prisoners, the mentally ill and other vulnerable populations, economic inducements for poor people to join experiments"

The use(!) of prisoners, etc. A scene right out of Dachau or Prison Camp 22.

Where are we going, as a nation?

[Matariki]

3. Wow. You'd think the EPA testing pesticides in bedrooms of poor children would garner more comments

I guess it's old news