RE: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-04 Thread Sisk, Kris
gel21...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 11:52 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments. I was thinking more in terms of countries. See, American propaganda portrays the nation as For the people, by the people, the epitomy of freedom and democracy

Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-04 Thread G Money
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Vivec wrote: > > I was thinking more in terms of countries. > > See, American propaganda portrays the nation as For the people, by the > people, the epitomy of freedom and democracy, the birthplace of liberty and > Good in the world. > The "epitome of freedom an

Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-04 Thread Vivec
I was thinking more in terms of countries. See, American propaganda portrays the nation as For the people, by the people, the epitomy of freedom and democracy, the birthplace of liberty and Good in the world. Russia has always been portrayed as communist, closed, against human rights, cut throat

Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-04 Thread G Money
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Vivec wrote: > > The question is...in this world...who are the good guys? > No, there are just "less bad guys", or more specifically: People who, in the interest of looking out for themselves, tend to hurt the least amount of other people, and even occasionally h

RE: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-04 Thread Sisk, Kris
s. Not that all paramedics and fire fighters are 'good guys', but I think most are. -Original Message- From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 6:18 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments. The question is...in

Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-02 Thread Casey Dougall
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > At least in this case, it happened generation(s) ago, parts of the > government released the information and made it available, other parts are > actively admitting to the acts and condemning them, and still other parts > are mobilizing to f

Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-01 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
http://www.radiolab.org/2010/jun/28/ Give this podcast a listen. It's several segments, but the one that relates is at the ~4 minute mark. It has to do with some studies performed at harvard. Very interesting stuff. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > >

Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-01 Thread Vivec
The question is...in this world...who are the good guys? Does that even exist? Or do we just have degrees of evil? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp

RE: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-01 Thread Sisk, Kris
y C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 3:41 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments. And how is this different from the Tuskegee experiments where they observed blacks who were infected with STD's and left untreated for y

Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry Johnson
It's not all that different. Except we were all still considering Tuskegee to be an aberration. Not a blueprint. I hope we don't find more examples. On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > And how is this different from the Tuskegee experiments where they > observed blacks w

Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-01 Thread Larry C. Lyons
And how is this different from the Tuskegee experiments where they observed blacks who were infected with STD's and left untreated for years? At least according to the BBC report, the Guatemalans were treated with Penicillin? On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Vivec wrote: > > http://www.npr.org/

Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-01 Thread Sam
That sucks. On a good note, at least they were testing with penicillin instead of mercury :) On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Vivec wrote: > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130266301&sc=fb&cc=fp > > It's facts like these that are fodder for conspiracy theorists > everyw

Re: US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry Johnson
Certainly is. But I will point out it was an American researcher from a private American university, researching at the library of a government-run state university, using documents released by the government under its "Freedom of Information" policies, who brought this to light. At least in thi

US apologises for reprehensible experiments.

2010-10-01 Thread Vivec
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130266301&sc=fb&cc=fp It's facts like these that are fodder for conspiracy theorists everywhere, and which have lead to the distrust of the US Government and their influence and actions in other countries. Some would argue that not much has ch