“Informed
consent is at the heart of ethically engaging in any kind of human testing.”
National
outrage over the federal government’s abuse of power has seemingly hit critical
mass over the past month as news about the Internal Revenue Service engaging in
political targeting, government spying on AP reporters, the pending government
prosecution of a Fox News reporter, and the revelation that the National
Security Agency has likely been collecting data on every one of us has
dominated the news. Ignored
in all the conversation about abuses is perhaps one of the most heinous of them
all.
The
Environmental Protection Agency’s continued practice of exposing human subjects
to extreme levels of particulate matter and other toxins in tests designed to
justify expanded air quality regulations.
Subjects
in EPA studies conducted at the University of North Carolina were allegedly
exposed to up to 21 times of the legally allowed fine particulate matter
(microscopic soot particles) in tests that left at least one previously healthy
man still wheezing for air two years later. Shockingly, the EPA warns
on their website that:…ToRead More….
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