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03.05.04, 17:52
W pierwszej połowie XX wieku istniały w USA specjalne zamkniete "domy dziecka" dla dzieci opóźnionych w rozwoju.
Niestety zamykano w nich także normalne dzieci, których panstwo chciało sie pozbyć. Wiekszosc zamknietych nie była nawet opóźniona w rozwoju. Potrzebni byli jako siła robocza do utrzymania zakładu. Oczywiscie w takich zamknietych zakładach wychowawcy mogli sobie pozwolić na wszystko. Znęcanie sie, seksualne wykorzystywanie...
Ale najbardziej szokujące jest to, że traktowano dzieci jak króliki doświadczalne. Poddawano je badaniom na działanie radioaktywnosci, bez ich wiedzy.
Dawano im np. napromieniowaną owsiankę, by móc sprawdzić działanie radioaktywnosci na zdrowie człowieka.
Jankescy doktorzy Mengele?
Do tej pory wychodziły na jaw takie badania na dorosłych (tak w USA jaki w CCCP)...
No ale dzieci?
A w badaniach uczestniczył MIT - amerykanska duma nauki.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/29/60minutes/main614728.shtml
Eugenics is usually associated with Nazi Germany, but in fact, it started in America. Not only that, it continued here long after Hitler's Germany was in ruins.
At the height of the movement - in the ?20s and ?30s - exhibits were set up at fairs to teach people about eugenics. It was good for America, and good for the human race. That was the message.
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And that's not all. More than 30 years after Boyce and Almeida were released, they found out that the school had allowed them to be used as human guinea pigs.
In 1994 Senate hearings, it came out that scientists from MIT had been giving radioactive oatmeal to the boys - men now - in a nutrition study for Quaker Oats. All they knew is that they'd been asked to join a science club.
Among those who attended the hearing was Almeida, also a member of the club. He says the boys were recruited with special treats: ?We were getting special treatment, you know, extra dessert, we got to eat away from the other boys. We were getting extra oatmeal. We're getting extra milk.?
?But they forgot to mention the milk was radioactive,? says David White-Lief, an attorney who worked on the state task force investigating the science club.
He says he was outraged that the children were exploited without their knowledge. ?It?s my contention, and it was my contention on the task force, that these experiments, because of the lack of informed consent, violated the Nuremburg Code established just 10 years earlier,? says White-Lief. ?The lesson of Nazi Germany was we don't do experiments on people without informed consent. They didn't use the word "informed consent" - without knowing consent.?
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As the boys grew older, many rebelled, often by running away. They always got caught.
Boyce showed Simon what happened then. The kids were taken to the infamous Ward 22, the school's detention center.
"Couldn't escape, you know, this was the prison," says Fred, who was locked up in solitary confinement here. ?And they had a little mattress on the floor there.?
As a further humiliation, kids were stripped naked. Back then, the windows had bars. ?You?re just this child, and you're in this cell because you ran away,? says Boyce. ?And you ran away for reasons of abuse and thinking that you don't belong here. You wanna have a life outside.?
