On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:01:12 +0000, John Mullen
wrote:

John Keeney wrote:

"B2431" wrote in message
...

The U.S. DID do medical experiments on par with the Nazis. Think of the

black

men in the syphilis experiments who were deliberately left untreated as an
example. In several states "mentally deficient" people were forcibly
sterilized. Maybe the U.S. didn't do these sorts of things to as many

people,

but we did do it.


No, neither of those things is "on par with the Nazis" human experiments.
The Nazis did things like throw prisoners into ice water to see how
long they could survive.



How about the time they injected plutonium into hospital patients to see
what would happen? That comes pretty close IMO

John

I think it comes very close-- in the sense the crimes were
committed. Nobody's saying the U.S was perfect, and in fact I
consider it a great wrong that when these expiriments were revealed,
the surviving doctors and administrators (and since they were done in
the 30's, there would be some), were not prosecuted for their crimes.