Hey internet friends.
History is littered with tales of individuals devising new ways to kill each other.
Throughout the centuries, the deliberate use of bacteria, viruses, and toxins has been
proven as an effective means of neutralizing a targeted population—a practice that has
been dubbed "biological warfare". Fast forward to recent times--poisoning the
well with plague-ridden corpses just didn't quite cut it anymore, especially not for empires
whose culture is rooted in endless war.
After all, the war machine requires the latest and greatest—but while the bioterrorism
budget is booming, the pool of volunteers willing to test out the effectiveness of these
weapons is anything but.
That's why today we're going to blast back to the past and examine the lessons of
history, focusing on a handful of unethical human experiments (that we know about),
as well as the global government, organizations, and individuals who carried
out these barbaric experiments by means of deception— powerful entities still around
today, who demand the blind trust of the general populace, though the only established track
record they hold is one of total disregard for human life.
Today we're going to talk about a selection of horrific human experiments carried out
under the American flag… #1-The Filipino Prison Experiments
Found within the first book of Samuel in the Bible is the oldest account of what is speculated
to be the Bubonic Plague.
The story goes a little something like this: when the Philistines stole the Ark of the
Covenant from the Israelites, the Philistines were were afflicted by an epidemic of what
was later thought to be the plague—the symptoms affecting each town to which the ark of the
covenant was taken.
The link was established by mentions of what was later roughly translated to mean "rats"
and "buboes" or "tumors" and further established by the knowledge that humans can be infected
by fleas who have fed on infected rodents.
The Philistines returned the Ark of the Covenant in repentance, and offered five golden tumors
and five golden mice to end the plague, but that wouldn't be the last time that a disease,
thought to be naturally occurring, would be weaponized.
In the late 19th century, the United States military, along with universities, began medical
experiments on prisoners in the Philippines, which was, at the time, an American territory.
These experiments included injecting prisoners with the bubonic plague, beginning with five
select prisoners for the first round.
Later, Yale and Johns Hopkins University graduate, Professor Richard Strong, infected twenty-four
prisoners with what he reportedly thought to be cholera, but turned out to be somehow
contaminated with bubonic plague, killing thirteen of those prisoners—whoopsie daisy! Well,
to his credit, Dr. Strong argued that he was: "'thoroughly convinced' that man could withstand the
amount of plague organism as a guinea pig."
Dr. Strong was later found innocent of any criminal negligence, and he later had a thriving
career as professor of topical medicine at Harvard.
But his experiments on prisoners didn't end with accidental plague inoculations.
A few years later, he conducted another round of experiments dealing with Beriberi, a deficiency
disease resulting in paralysis and ultimately heart failure.
Although several prisoners died as a result, the remaining few were rewarded with cigars
and cigarettes—what a reward for narrowly escaping death, right?
So worth it.
(Sarcasm heavily implied.)
To make matters worse, its' not like these prisoners volunteered for these experiments
or even had the slightest clue as to what was going on, which begins our theme of non-existent
voluntary or informed consent—at least for this video.
#2- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study Conducted by the public health service in partnership with
the Rockefeller-funded Tuskegee Institute in 1932, the clinical study of untreated syphilis
targeted 600 African-American men—Alabama sharecroppers who believed they were receiving
free health care from the United States government.
Of the 600, 399 of those men had reportedly already contracted syphilis, a sexually transmitted
disease, before the study began, and the remaining men were purposely infected with the bacterium,
told they were being treated for "bad blood".
The projected six-month clinical study spanned over the course of forty years, and for many
of those men, clinicians followed them until their eventual deaths.
Though pencillin became the treatment of choice for syphilis in 1945, measuring the effectiveness
of treatments wasn't the goal of this study.
No, the goal of this 40-year study was to observe the consequences of untreated syphilis.
And, spoiler alert: while syphilis often presents with a painless red sore at the infection
site, when untreated, syphilis can cause damage to the internal organs, like the brain or
the heart, and progresses through stages serious enough to result in death.
It wasn't until much later that the horrors of the Tuskegee study surfaced, and a legal
settlement included a lifetime of…wait for it… medical benefits to the study subjects,
their wives, and children.
#3 The Devil's Experiments in Guatemala Dubbed the "devil's experiment" by Guatemalans,
a series of venereal disease experiments took place in Guatemala between 1946-1948 and was
led by physician James Charles Cutler who was also involved in the Tuskegee Syphilis
experiments.
The Guatemalan experiments involved infecting an estimated 1308 unsuspecting victims with
an STD, but this time, instead of just targeting African American men, the pool of victims
opened up to children as young as ten, mental patients, prisoners, prostitutes, and soldiers.
There were eighty documented deaths as a result. These experiments were reportedly conducted so researchers
could look for ways to prevent STD's from spreading, with their focus on stopping the
spread of diseases amongst soldiers at war.
Guatemala was chosen so doctors could avoid the pesky ethical constraints of informed
consent.
Studies show that a number of patients were infected with syphilis and brought to the
brink of death, only to test the effectiveness of penicillin as treatment.
Once treated, patients were infected with another STD, and the process started over
again.
Dr. Cutler acknowledged his ethical violations in 1947, stating, "Unless the law winks occasionally,
you have no progress in medicine." Since the United States owned up to these experiments
in 2010, there have been several lawsuits against the United States government, the
Rockefeller-funded Johns Hopkins University, and the Rockefeller Foundation to the tune
of 1 billion dollars in damages, but the real damage has yet to come to fruition, given
that there's no telling how many infected Guatemalan children and grandchildren of these
victims are running around right now, the reverberations and consequences of these experiments
resulting in a generational effects, given that mothers can pass syphilis to an unborn
child, and when left untreated, there's a high risk of stillbirth or infant death.
Beyond the threat of lawsuits, those who conducted these experiments got nothing more than a
slap on the wrist, if that!
The Rockefeller Foundation is still just as influential as before, steering the medical
field as it deems fit, because deep pockets have sway and can even rewrite history.
If knowledge of unethical human experimentation was commonplace, and everyone knew that the
major pharmaceutical companies of today were the heads of the United States biological
warfare program of days past, like George Merck of Merck and Co—now a major vaccine
maker—if individuals held this knowledge, would they still accept inoculations without
asking their doctor or researching what they're putting into their bodies first?
When I see recent headlines about how syphilis cases are at an all-time high, it makes me
wonder how organic of an occurrence that is, and how much of the problem has been created
to strike fear and outrage in the masses so that a manufactured solution, like a vaccine,
can be introduced to create profit.
A solution with its own host of problems, a solution concocted by those with a sordid
history, unworthy of your blind trust, as they have a proven track record of disregard
for human life.
#4 Ohio Penitentiary Cancer ExperimentsA man who eventually became the Vice President of
the American Cancer Society began his reign of terror in an Ohio State Penitentiary in
1952.
Chester Southam, a Sloan-Kettering Researcher, which, unsurprisingly was also funded by the
Rockefeller Foundation (I know I sound like a broken record at this point)—anyway (!) Southam
sought to discover how healthy bodies fought the invasion of malignant cells, so he injected
live cancer cells into prisoners, as well as 300 healthy women at Sloan-Kettering, all
of whom were not informed of Southam's extracurricular research.
However, at that time, fellow doctors were fully aware that injection of live cancer
cells might cause cancer, even in healthy individuals.
Nearly a decade later, Southam set his sights on twenty-two elderly patients at a chronic
disease hospital in Brooklyn, injecting them with live cancer cells—all without their
consent.
Why?
Well he wanted to test his hypothesis of course!
His hypothesis that bodies "racked with serious but non-cancerous diseases would reject
live cancer cells as rapidly and completely as healthy bodies".
This time, a few whistle blower colleagues came forward, refusing to participate in Southam's
experiments and ultimately resigning.
Southam's unethical practices eventually made headlines and even saw the inside of
a courtroom.
And his punishment?
Brace yourselves for this one, it's a real doozy.
The New York medical licensing board put him on probation for…a year.
#5 Operation Sea Spray During the world wars, the funding of the United States biological
weapons programs increased and continued well into the Cold War.
In 1950, a secret experiment was conducted by the US Navy in an effort to test the vulnerability
of susceptible regions of the United States in the event of a biological attack.
The Navy sprayed clouds of Serratia bacterium from a giant hose for two miles along the
San Francisco Bay coastline, successfully dosing nearly eight hundred thousand residents
during the week of spraying, all unbeknownst to the general population.
Though the navy claimed the bacteria was harmless, the reality is that it can cause urinary tract
and wound infections in some, as well as gastrointestinal and respiratory issues in others.
In the week following operation sea spray, eleven adults checked into the hospital with
serious UTIs linked to the bacteria, and one man even died as a result.
Furthermore, An increase in pneumonia in the Bay Area was later speculated to have been
linked to Operation Sea Spray . The results of the experiment?
San Francisco Bay was identified as highly susceptible to biological attacks due to its
iconic fog.
Pentagon reports that were declassified decades later revealed that the military had performed
open-air testing of biowarfare agents an estimated 239 times across American cities like New
York City, Panama City and Key West from 1950 to 1966.
Other reports detailed the release of deadly nerve agents over Alaska and dousing Hawaii
with bacteria, and the experiments weren't limited to the United States populace, but
extended all the way to Canada and Great Britain.
After these reports were declassified, the Defense Department admitted that the tests
weren't exactly harmless, and due to the exposure to deadly chemicals and bacteria,
soldiers and civilians alike have suffered serious health ramifications.
It was in 1969 that President Richard Nixon issued an executive order to end all US offensive
biological weapons programs, and supposedly all US stockpiles were destroyed by 1972.
However, as you'l see in my upcoming videos, experimentation on human guinea pigs certainly
didn't end in 1969, nor was it limited to germ warfare.
Now, if you're someone who has watched this video all the way through and is hammering
away on your keyboard right now to make the argument that despite how unethical and brutal
these experiments in this video were, the results provided pharmaceutical companies,
physicians, and the military with information they needed—before you comment that, I'd
like to ask you something:Are you willing to volunteer yourself, your mother, your father,
or your children as test subjects for the next round of experiments?Thank you so much
for watching, internet friends.
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