CIA doctors face human experimentation claimsWelcome to Cheney's wet dream: if you're not certain of the best way to torture whatever confessions you want out of prisoners, get a crack team of CIA doctors to start gathering data.
Medical ethics group says physicians monitored 'enhanced interrogation techniques' and studied their effectiveness.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Human Experimentation
Mengele. Unit 731. Tuskegee. One might have supposed that with the numerous, well-documented, and disgusting historical occurrences of experimentation on fellow human beings, well-educated and intelligent people- doctors!- would be hyper-alert to the dangers inherent in the activity. One might have supposed. But according to the Guardian...
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