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Hepatitis

mardi 22 février 2022 à 20:50

For three decades, 1942 to 1972, American scientists intentionally infected over a thousand subjects with hepatitis to study what would happen.

I can't tell from this book review what, if anything, the subjects were told about what was going to be done to them. At one extreme, they may have been forced outright. At the other extreme, they could have been offered a good deal given their situations, and asked for informed consent -- but the text seems to imply that the experimenters did not do that. What did they do? This seems to be the crucial moral question.

Covid recovery equivilant to one vaccine dose

mardi 22 février 2022 à 20:50

Arguing that recovery from Covid-19 should be considered equivalent to getting one dose of vaccine.

Fossil fuel companies in Parliament

lundi 21 février 2022 à 11:20

Fossil fuel companies in the UK secretly provide personnel to help run some committees of Parliament. In some cases they serve as the contact point for the committee, which gives them tremendous power.

This arrangement is outright corruption, and ought to be prohibited absolutely.

Britain and the Kremlin

lundi 21 février 2022 à 11:20

*To begin unravelling the Kremlin’s tendrils from Britain, the government [i.e., the Tory Party] must return millions in political donations.*

The royal family sells "honors" for large sums of money, but this is not considered a bribe, because it is a centuries-old tradition and in the past was not hidden.

Ukrainian resistance

lundi 21 février 2022 à 11:20

NATO is planning how to arm the Ukrainian resistance if Russia attacks.