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In June, 2003, the U.S. military revealed that it had been conducting unusual experiments on American soldiers in the 1960's. The Pentagon recently declassified a set of reports on programs known as Project 112 and Project SHAD (shipboard hazard and defense). These programs had been carried out between 1961 and 1970 and were designed to identify American military vulnerability to chemical and biological weaponry. During the tests, large numbers of soldiers — who were unaware that they were being used — were exposed to toxic substances and suffered consequences to their health. (Military Admits Experiments on Soldiers, 2003, Nutrition Health Review: The Consumer's Medical Journal) This current statement released from the government is very important. Not only were they violating the human rights of their own soldiers who served for this country, but waited to tell the public for over forty years! The test subjects were not volunteers and were not aware of the experiment. The government just decided to test these military weapons and hope for the best. Unfortunately, the government has the ability to do these cruel things to its own citizens and get away with it. This should not sit well with anyone in the United States. The Washington Post reported that efforts from legislation have been made prior to this event in 1997, but the results of making human rights more important in human testing failed. An incident from uranium miners was released stating that the miners were used to test for the United States nuclear arsenal. Years later, approximately 600 workers developed lung cancer. This number is very high and since this was such a controversy, legislation proposed that they, ―would give the 600 miners or their survivors a total of $50 million over 15 years‖ (Strobel, 1997). This is also costing the government tons of money to try and heal the wounds that cannot be repaired with money. Can money really be the solution? Could this really be used compared to the pain, chemotherapies, and death these workers have to suffer from the government‘s error? This sort of an apology cannot give back the lives these workers once lived. The Nuremberg Code and a new experimentation oath would be appropriate to help protect these workers so that the government will not be able to violate another 600 people‘s human rights. 145
Although the government has power over many things in this country, this should not give them the right to violate human rights and put their own people in poor health. Anyone for that matter should not be able to harm humans in or outside of human testing. So why not take out human testing altogether? If human testing was stopped, people would not be in these types of unfortunate situations. Most people do not think of the opportunity scientists have to experiment on real human subjects. Human testing should be something to be looked at as a way to promote interest in learning more about the human body, not destroy it. Keeping things a secret to avoid human rights trouble is not the best way to promote this kind of opportunity. If the Nuremberg Code and a new experimenter oath were created, this would prevent these maladaptive ways to experiment, promote safer human testing, and also make the public aware of the experiments that are being conducted. Human experimentation should lead to success stories, not tragic, secretive ones. The enforcement of a new oath and the Nuremberg Code seem reassuring, but others have created an oath to prevent human testing as a whole. Jacob Sullivan (2008) reports in his article: the Declaration of Helsinki, first adopted in 1964 and amended five times since, prohibits experimentation on humans. The declaration draws clear lines for acceptable medical research involving human subjects, such as vaccines. The document was created in order to outlaw the kind of brutal, inhumane experimentation performed on human subjects by Nazi doctors. (Should doctors change the Hippocratic Oath?) Attempts in the past have been made, such as those efforts from Helsinki, and had little to no effect. The only reason this ‗document‘ exists is from research done over the internet. It is not reliable in current times because this declaration is unknown to the public. If this ‗document‘ were to be in effect, it would affect today‘s human testing experiments. The ‗Declaration of Helsinki‘ states prohibiting human experimentation. This would stop so many discoveries that were founded during the late sixties and beyond that society would not have the modern technologies and medicines to save lives today. This would include modern day cancer technologies such as chemotherapies, as well as other methods to make chemotherapy less harsh on patients through human testing. 146
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