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Science for the People began pressuring Walzer in the early 70s, and the investigator's research procedures changed slightly over the next five years--partly, apparently, in response to the group's objections. Walzer's group has modified greatly the extent to which it requires informed consent of all participants in the study. Initially, patients in the maternity hospital were "informed" that male babies would be tested only because the hospital's brochure noted the tests, without reference to the charged nature of the study. When a test for the extra chromosome was positive, an investigator would approach the parents...
...nebulous nature of just how informed this informed consent was became a major issue in the effort to halt the research. It was also the issue that attracted the attention of two outside organizations: the Washington-based Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and the Massachusetts Advocacy Center. Informed consent was a legal consideration, not as important to Science for the People as the political matters at the heart of research, but critical to CDF, a group whose concerns include the rights of children who are the subjects of medical experimentation. "The legal issue, while the narrowest, was also the best...
Assets Diverted. Before the meeting, however, Ashland signed a consent decree admitting to no guilt but promising, in effect, not to make illegal political donations in the future. It also bared many secrets. In June the company submitted a 539-page report, prepared by a special committee of the board, containing exhaustive information on how Ashland executives had managed to divert corporate assets into an $800,000 U.S. political slush fund that was kept hidden in a safe. The report also indicated that from 1967 to 1972 a CIA operative was on Ashland's payroll, and that...
Giving LSD to someone without his informed consent opens the door to the "ruthless modification of people's minds," declared Dr. Judd Marmor, president of the American Psychiatric Association, after he heard the circumstances of the suicide of Biochemist Frank Olson (TIME, July 21). Even if done for security reasons, added Marmor, such experiments as those conducted by the CIA are unethical...
...Turkey effective last February, though other factors played a major role: 1) the Turkish use of American military weapons on Cyprus clearly violated U.S. laws banning their offensive employment and a specific agreement between Washington and Ankara against shipment of such weapons to Cyprus without Washington's consent; 2) Congress was growing increasingly restive over what many legislators considered Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's highhanded management of U.S. foreign policy...