Some other stuff about me.
The Bill of Rights:
a
scanned copy and
the text of the original
bill. (U.S. Constitution).
``Treat the people with kindness and the root of the nation will
flourish;
abuse them and the country will be ruined.''
``You just think about your own family, your own son, your own daughter,
or
grandchildren who might be, the next time they go to a doctor, the
subject
of some medical experiment that they are not even told about. I
do not
think there can be many things more un-American than that.''
Well, is there really a problem out there?
Is this just a paper loophole that I am trying to close?
Unfortunately, Mr. President, there are ongoing problems with inappropriate, ethically suspect research on human subjects. It is difficult to know the extent of such problems because information is not collected in any formal manner on human research. The Cleveland Plain-Dealer in my home State of Ohio has recently reported in a whole series of articles, after much investigation of this issue. And I quote from them:
What the government lacks in hard data about humans, it more than makes up for with volumes of statistics about laboratory animals. Wonder how many guinea pigs were used in U.S. research? The Agriculture Department knows: 333,379. How many hamsters in Ohio? 2,782.So we have all this data on animals and little on human beings. I would hasten to add that the guinea pigs the Plain-Dealer refers to are the four-legged kind too and not the guinea pigs that are humans being used for research. The reason we know so much about the use of animals in research is that we have laws governing the handling and treatment of them. For example, the Animal Welfare Act requires that certain minimum standards be maintained when using animals in research.
Let me give you some recent examples which indicate why, notwithstanding the common rule and the other protections that are in place, I think additional protections are needed in statute...
The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them more easy victims
of a big lie
than a small one, because they themselves often tell little lies
but would be ashamed
to tell big ones.
Such a form of lying would never enter their heads. They would never
credit others with the possibility of such great impudence as the
complete
reversal of facts. Even explanations would long leave them in doubt
and hesitation,
and any trifling reason would dispose them to accept a thing as
true.
Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent
of lies, a
fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying
in this world
know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve
this end. ''
