Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00880)

krsanna wrote:
> You're certainly old enough to remember the My Lai massacre in Viet 
> Nam, Bart.  
	Yes. A group of soldiers went wild, killing a bunch of innocent people. 
Other soldiers stopped them, and the higher ups tried to cover up the 
incident. Has nothing to do with pseudo scientists.

> The American Army's experimentation that involved 
> withholding treatment of syphilis without the knowledge of patients 
> in order to study them was the American thing to do.  
	First of all, it was not faking results of experiments. Second of all, 
it was at a time when, for the group of people in question, the cure was 
more dangerous than the disease. The crime was not telling the people 
that they were not being treated, so that they could receive more 
effective and safer treatments as they became available.

> The CIA's
> experiments giving LSD to their own scientists without their 
> knowledge in order to study them ranks at the top of heinous.
	And the people who did those were evil, as well. But evil is not the 
same thing as faking science. And they were all done on a small scale by 
people taking the law into their own hands, not as official action on 
all levels of government, as the faking of results in the Soviet Union 
was done.

	Bart