This is almost too evil to be believed

Static Brain has an entry on the use of orphans and retarded children as guinea pigs. When I first read this awhile back, I discounted it, but then you start seeing it over and over. My brother, a chemical engineer who had done contract work for several big drug companies, casually told me that they regularly give new drugs to street people to see what effects they have. I questioned him about it and then he wouldn't say anything more. Maybe we are not that far from the Tuskegee syphilis experiments or all the experiments done to prisoners that was described in the book Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison : A True Story of Abuse and Exploitation in the Name of Medical Science . Many years ago, I was reading Adelle Davis's book Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit and she talked about how they studied the effects of starvation by starving conscientious objectors. The later editions of this book removed the passage.