Government and Academic Show Business

Amy Gutman is the President of the University of Pennsylvania and the chair of the Bioethics commission. U Penn gets millions of US taxpayer funds for research grants each year. This report addresses wrongdoing 60 years ago. Any criminal statute has long expired. This is typical of government commissions. They are for show business. Not only do they have no power, but also this one is an advisory commission. They do not challenge or criticize any current operations on which they could have an effect. US laws have no penalties for non compliance. There is no incentive to curb criminal the enthusiasm of the researchers. They believe that the benefit to society outweighs the harm to the individuals. This can be seen in the arguments trying to justify the syphilis experiments. They are the same arguments used by the Nazi doctors at the Nuremberg trials. People have not changed and are no less greedy, sadistic and mendacious as ordinary citizens., So why is this news? Why no scrutiny of the current illegal government experiments which the Office of Human Subjects Protection refuses to investigate?



http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110829/ts_nm/us_usa_guatemala_syphilis

U.S. researchers broke rules in Guatemala syphilis study
By Alina Selyukh
Reuters
August 29, 2011