No Informed Consent to the State

Who knew I'd come to feel a kinship with the men of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? Some may think it presumptuous for a middle-aged, professional white woman to identify with the victims of state experimentation as horrific as letting men die — after spreading the infection to their wives and children — of a terrible and easily-treatable disease, but I don't think it is at all an exaggeration to say that we all are victims of the government's continuing insistence on doing ill in the name of good. Let me explain… I do brain-imaging research with human subjects, and I … Continue reading No Informed Consent to the State