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To: lbryce
I really wonder, on occasion, how the scientific community came to understand the role of anti-depressants and suicidal thoughts. The only way they could understand it is if they were conducting experiments and bumped into those results. Were those experiments conducted honestly and legally and ethically?

Somehow they had to be able to make adjustments in the medication.

Same goes for MRI's. It occurs to me that tests needed to be conducted which would allow them to know how to refine the dials.

Did they use any of the studies done with electro-shock therapy? Were those experiments conducted honestly and legally and ethically?

How many of those studies included Nazi doctor input?

These are just a few of the questions floating around in my head right now.

32 posted on 09/15/2014 1:56:37 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Slyfox
How many of those studies included Nazi doctor input?

I ran across a case like this several years ago. Phosgene is not only a war gas but an important industrial chemical. It's a precursor to some important plastics. OSHA wanted to determine safe exposure levels in industries using phosgene. The firm that was contracted to study this found some data that had been collected by the Nazis, in experiments on concentration camp inmates. The data were included in the proceedings of the Nuremberg trials of those responsible for the experiments. The firm wanted to include this data in their analyses of safe levels of exposure. That caused an enormous uproar. How dare they use Nazi data? Even if it did save lives in industries using phosgene, using that data was immoral.

I could never see that. Experimenting on concentration camp inmates is immoral. Data, however, are data, no matter where they come from. Being inanimate, they can't even rise to the level of sinning. I believe the data should have been used, because using the data might save lives.

47 posted on 09/15/2014 4:04:22 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. Available from Amazon.)
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