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mk  ·  4419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America's Deep, Dark Secret
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.

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Boyce, also in the science club, got a group of members together and they sued. Each received approximately $60,000 in compensation from MIT, Quaker Oats and the government.

60k? They should have gotten 600k and all future medical expenses paid.

What are we turning a blind eye to now?





thenewgreen  ·  4419 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It's one thing when we do it to Guatemalans: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/guatemala-experi... But on our very own?

What are we turning a blind eye to now? -Good question, we likely won't know for some time.

lessismore  ·  4419 days ago  ·  link  ·  
How about the over diagnosis and over use of medication in children?

Edit: typo

mk  ·  4419 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It is pretty amazing that we have global pharmaceutical companies that decide "child depression" is the next big market, and then make it so. That, we will look back upon in amazement and disgust.

In fact, I think that the extent to which we've allowed society to be shaped by corporate competition and profit motive will at some future time seem absurd. We are still living in the shadow of a Capitalist/Communist debate that almost guarantees ignorance to actuality. i.e. Capitalism is good because we know Communism is bad. So we sacrifice again and again at the altar of not-Communism. Those kids jacked up on neuro-modulators are part of the sacrifice. They are the recipients of unnecessary action due to motivations that have extended too far. Their plight is the satiation of share-holders, and we know that's Capitalist and thus, not bad.