U. California Researchers Used Dying Patients For Experiments Without Consent

Still no penalties for violation of US laws using human subjects for experiments without consent. Defenders of this situation claim that banning the researchers from performing human experiments is punishment. Oh? How about if we ban murderers from committing murder when they are caught killing another person? Is that accountability as well? It shows how these morally superior, usually academics, get away with murder literally. They can kill human subjects and say they were enrolled in an experiment and not be held accountable. That actually happened in Boston. When I called Boston police to inquire if they investigated deaths in experiments at Harvard University Medical School teaching hospitals, they told me not to call again. The police spokesman told me the researchers do their own investigations. I asked if I was accused of killing would I be allowed to do the investigation? The DA and the Medical Examiner also did not investigate those deaths.
To suggest that the use of human subjects is strictly controlled is misleading if not completely false. There are no penalties under law. Unlike use of animals in experiments in violation of law, where there are fines and prison penalties. In addition what are the figures about oversight after 2000, when a Harvard psychiatrist was the director of the Office of Human Subjects Protection at the NIH, not the FDA, which regulates devices. The rules were loosened by this director.


http://bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20120728uc-davis_neurosurgeon_temporarily_steps_down_as_department_chair_amid_probe/srvc=news&position=recent_bullet

UC-Davis neurosurgeon ‘temporarily’ steps down as department chair amid probe
Boston Herald
By Marjie Lundstrom
McClatchy Newspapers
Saturday, July 28, 2012

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[From article]
A prominent University of California, Davis neurosurgeon and his colleague have been banned from performing medical research on humans after the two were accused of experimenting on dying brain cancer patients without university permission.[...]
Research on humans is tightly controlled in the U.S., requiring a thorough approval process by the FDA, which it is alleged the neurosurgeons failed to follow.
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Between 1998 and 2000, federal regulators suspended human research at seven university medical centers and one veterans hospital.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178072/A-pair-neurosurgeons-banned-human-research-illegally-introduced-bacteria-cancer-patients-open-wounds-led-deaths.html

Doctors who EXPERIMENTED on dying brain cancer patients without permission banned from research
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 00:28 EST, 24 July 2012 | UPDATED: 01:42 EST, 24 July 2012