you’d think they give experimental medications to the poor in exchange for cash
They definitely do. You can volunteer for such trials. The pay isn’t very good though, maybe enough for a few days worth of groceries.
Prisoners have also been used for medical and cosmetic experimentation.
MK Ultra rings a bell?
I bet they still do this shit, just even more secretly.
Yeah, the US has frightening statistics on missing persons, and the cops are too busy imprisoning poor and homeless people to spend resources looking for missing ones. Would be trivial for them to go into any of the dozens of homeless encampments in any city, throw them into a van, and never hear from them again.
What are the stats on missing persons? I haven’t heard about this before
It’s not even illegal for them to. It wasn’t until 2018 they were even told they should be ethical about it. Or suggested, I guess, would be a better word.
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Beat me to the punch on that one, comrade xD
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Not to mention all the innumerable times that the US was fine with letting people who live near medical factories get cancer because of the fumes and carcinogenic materials. I mean I read about those events in the paper so often
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Drug trials are very common. They can basically give you literal cyanide and then compensate you with 10 dollars and a Starbuck coupon.
I doubt they would pay poor people for eggs or sperm. The fertility industry is full of eugenics.
I don’t know if this counts but I do remember something about the CIA trafficking cocaine into predominantly black neighbourhoods to essentially fuel the War On Drugs.
I mean…they do in a roundabout way. Not completely intentionally but they don’t give a shit about peoples health during Medical drug testing trials. I listen to a podcast where a guest explains that he sells his plasma to afford rent(around 100-200$USD each time he donates), and he said after doing it a few times, his bones started to ache. He did a little research and found out that in Europe and many other places, you can only donate plasma every 2 weeks and you have to be in ok shape to give plasma. Basically this guest was going 4 times a week because US regulations on plasma donations are SO weak and geared towards profit that they allow people to hurt themselves for cash. The guest said himself that the US doesn’t care about the heath of the patient, they are just after the cash in their veins. Not to mention that the guest also takes trial drugs that may or may not be safe, he also isn’t allowed to impregnate anyone because his sperm is most likely hazardous for a baby to develop properly. The guest rents out a basement. So I mean is that human experimentation? Some would say no some would say yes, but the US certainly isn’t working hard to take an Anti-human-experimentation position. It’s not like Nazi experiments where they would do god awful things to twins and minorities in the name of “science” these days, it usually is part of medical studies and as coercive as it is, the US can claim people are doing this willingly, which we all know isn’t true.
To this day many statesian sell their blood plasma.
Neoliberalism has outsourced all of the human experimentation jobs to the global south.