EPA Pages Dr. Mengele(EPA Wants Pesticide Manufacturers To Test On Humans)

[theearthisround]

http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001595.php

Under a newly-proposed rule (that will most likely be formally adopted), the EPA would allow pesticide manufacturers to test their products on human "volunteers." The volunteers would include pregnant women and prisoners, as well as newborns and children. Further, the EPA...

...would not establish an independent ethics review board to scrutinize human studies on the grounds that this would "unnecessarily confine EPA's discretion."

So prisoners, who "might be 'vulnerable to coercion or undue influence,'" and children who are volunteered by their parents, would be turned into guinea pigs.

Now I know there are some who will ask, "Isn't it better to find out the toxicity of a pesticide through controlled scientific means, rather than having to deal with thousands of public cases stemming from a lack of research?" I will concede that point.

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http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001595.php

[genieroze]

1. I can't believe this crap, what's wrong with these idiots? eom