"The practice ensured that foster children — mostly poor or minority"
Do these authors,and their editors, have a brain?
How many 'rich' foster children are there?
It extended their lives. There will be more on this matter, I'm sure, and I'll wait to hear more about it.
That's what I was gonna say. PETA wouldn't let them test them on animals!
Seeing as how the government has engaged in testing of various sorts (radiation, anti-syphilitic drugs, various vaccines, the SHAD testing, biowarfare sims) without any "informed consent, I see no difference in methodology here.
This being said, and not knowing if the foster parents were notified of the testing of the drugs, there might be somewhat of a beneficent motive in this. If these children were indeed those of a high=risk demographic, and given that once full blown AIDS developed one was in a basic sure-death category anyway, then the use of experimental drugs to slow down or stop the growth or spread of the virus would be acceptable, provided that such tests were done with informed consent and the full knowledge of everyone concerned.
Given the report's statement that "most of the testing was done during the 1990's during the Xlintoon watch, makes me highly suspicious of both the motive, the method, and the outcome as reported. Since the X42 administration lied about everything else, there is nothing here which would make me believe the veracity of this.
I also find the use of "foster children" rather suspicious", as reading between the lines, I rather suspect the researchers' first thought would be "disposable subjects".
While I believe that a cure for AIDS is a desirable goal, I also feel that there are any number of other fatal illnesses and conditions that could use some of the funding and hype that are being thrown at AIDS, and that much more effort should be given to the prevention of the spread of this disease, which, if Political Correctness were allowed to be ignored, and facts could be "told like they are" the process of getting the word out about just who the "high risk" demographic is, and how this spread could be prevented, would be much, much easier, than having to tiptoe around the minefield of the multicolored flag.
Keep the faith for Freedom
Greg
I have had to take the human research course on ethical human studies.
To test a drug in a child there must be a compelling reason.
The benefit has to out weigh the risk.
Since the risk of the disease with no treatment is death, I am not sure any outrage is justified.
The foster parents gave consent to treatment.
This is what our tax dollars are going towards. And the radical homo/aids activists are bitching that we're not spending enough money to save their sorry asses.
Let us put this in context.
These children had AIDS and all treatment was experimental at that time. It was deemed that these children would die without treatment and it was tried.