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164 Barnett, Antony. “UK firm tried HIV drug on orphans.” The Guardian Unlimited. 4 April 2004. 19
Sept. 2005
Doran, Jamie “New York’s HIV experiment.” BBC News, UK Edition. 30 Nov. 2004. 19 Sept. 2005
165 Barnett, Antony. “UK firm tried HIV drug on orphans.” The Guardian Unlimited. 4 April 2004. 19
Sept. 2005
Doran, Jamie “New York’s HIV experiment.” BBC News, UK Edition. 30 Nov. 2004. 19 Sept. 2005
166 Annie, 1982.
167 Dr. Stanley Milgram’s experiments in human response to authority in the 1960’s-70's offer as much
insight today as when they were originally conducted. The experiments are best known as a series of
tests performed through Yale University, where a subject was told to administer an increasingly high
level of electrical shock to a victim (an actor) attempting to learn a series of word relationships. The
experiments were all variations on a theme: a unknowing participant (the subject-teacher) was
brought to believe that s/he was participating in a learning study. The other two main participants
were a man who posed as the student (the learner) and one who posed as the principal investigator
(the authority figure). The subject-teacher was told that the learning would occur in this way: the
student would be hooked up to an electric shock generator while the teacher would read a set of word
pairs, which the student would repeat back. When the student missed one of the word pairs, he would
be shocked by the "teacher" in increasingly higher shocks (the shocks increased in 15 volt increments),
up to 450 volts (which was marked, along with the 435 volt mark, with XXX). Drawing the subjects
for his experiment from a varied cross-section of contemporary American society, they were men,
women, college educated or high school graduates, white and blue collar workers from every possible
background. Milgram shows what "normal" people are capable of doing when they can justify their
actions or deny responsibility. The frightening results showed the majority of subjects, at the bequest
of the authority involved, applied the maximum voltage despite the begging and pleading of the victim
to stop the test (the victim being an actor pretending to be shocked). Most subjects shocked the actor
past maximum voltage, to lethal doses; they "killed" the actor, or would have killed if the experiment
was "real." With the exception of one single person, all the subjects obeyed each and every order
issued by the authority figure no matter how brutal, many explaining that in real life they would never
be able to do what they were in point of fact in the middle of doing. The one person who refused to
participate did so because of what he had observed in Nazi Germany. That so many people willingly
and in some cases eagerly inflicted nothing less than torture on others is unsettling, to be sure. More
unsettling still is that the person who refused did so on the basis of acquired, as opposed to innate,
values.
Milgram, Stanley. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. New York, NY: Harper & Row
Publishers, Inc. 1974
168 Dalton, Jack. “The Bush/Cheney and V.A.’s War Against Veterans.” Project for the Old American
Century. n.d.
169 Niccòlo Machiavelli, The Prince, the "end justifies the means" It should be noted however, that this
quote is actually an incorrect translation of The Prince. The passage in question is more accurately
translated as "In the actions of all men, and especially of princes who are not subject to a court of
appeal, we must always look to the end. Let a prince, therefore, win victories and uphold his state; his
methods will always be considered worthy, and everyone will praise them, because the masses are
always impressed by the superficial appearance of things, and by the outcome of an enterprise.
See also, Ludlow, Lawrence M. “Machiavelli and U.S. Politics.” LewRockwell.com. 27 Aug. 2005.
170 “New Study Suggests Artificial Sweetener Causes Cancer in Rats at Levels Currently Approved
for Humans.” Environmental Health Perspectives. 17 Nov. 2005
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a
monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human
health. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.