check the former senator’s trip on the blood trail.
I think most people in OK have known he was a crook for 53 out of the 54 years, he represents SE OK which is rampant with welfare people and they vote for him in droves, he keeps the money coming
Thanks for the bump, thinden. As you know, Sen. Stipe was on the infamous Dr. Stough's payroll. Stough started the program of harvesting blood from prisoners in Arkansas that continued throughout Clinton's term as governor and was not ended until the Clintons were occupying the White House. During Clinton's tenure as governor of Arkansas, the blood from his prison system spread hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS to hemophiliacs in Canada.
In Arkansas prisons, a great deal of human experimentation went on. The infamous Dr. Stough ran his Menegle-style operation at Cummins Prison at the behest of pharmaceutical giants like Merck and Cutter, and many, many inmates died as a result. And yes, there was a cover-up.(Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials)But Stough didn't stop there. He had the bright idea to begin bleeding prisoners in 1963 and the plasmapheresis business was born....
Now, the pathogens that Stough injected into his prison subjects, to test and create new powerful drugs to fight diseases, were being spread through blood in the plasma donor program due to unsanitary conditions and faulty equipment.
Epidemics in 1963 and 1968 at Cummins Prison were investigated by the CDC. Yet, despite these outbreaks, the dangerous practice was allowed to continue.
As a result, not only were people behind the prison walls infected BUT the public at large from the use of this contaminated blood.
Then in 1983, more problems were exposed -- resulting in two failed international recalls of bad blood from the Arkansas Department of Correction and the FDA shut down the prison program because of severe regulatory problems. The state's license to collect blood was revoked in 1984.
Yet, despite these problems, the State of Arkansas, under Gov. Clinton, allowed to program to be reopened. And for another decade it ran before closing its doors for good in 1994.
John Byus, the medical administrator for the ADC, even went so far as to say that he'd still be running the program today if he could. Will he get another chance?
Now, drug companies want to test AIDS and Hep-C treatments on inmates for the public good. SEE the strong IRONY there?
Two "captive" groups of people ... the incarcerated and hemophiliacs were grossly exploited because they had no voice, no power. And once those who stand to make a great deal of money off these cheap and plentiful human guinea pigs get started again -- all bets are off. ... Many more people will get hurt...
Dr. Stough also lined up political support outside the prisons, a tactic that demonstrated its importance when members of the Oklahoma Legislature began to ask whether his penitentiary operations were sanctioned by law. One of Dr. Stough's most vehement opponents was Gene Stipe, then a State Senator. But early in 1963 Senator Stipe changed sides and successfully pushed a bill that firmly established the physician's standing in the prison.(PRISON DRUG AND PLASMA PROJECTS LEAVE FATAL TRAIL)Later it was discovered that at about the time this change of direction occurred and the saving law was enacted, Mr. Stipe, a lawyer, began to receive a $1,000-a-month retainer from the concern headed by Dr. Stough.