Word: willowbrook
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...WILLOWBROOK...
...1950s Army doctors gave LSD to soldiers without telling them what it was. In 1963 researchers injected prisoners and terminally ill patients with live cancer cells to test their immune responses; they were told only that it was a "skin test." In the 1950s mentally retarded children at Willowbrook, a state institution in New York, were deliberately infected with hepatitis so that scientists could work on an experimental vaccine. And in perhaps the most infamous case on record, doctors at Georgia's Tuskegee Institute, starting in the 1930s, deliberately withheld treatment from syphilis-infected African-American men for 40 years...
...same. On the contrary. They are almost always in conflict. At the extreme are the notorious cases in which the patient is actually sacrificed on the altar of science: the Tuskegee experiment, in which a group of black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated for 40 years; the Willowbrook experiment, in which retarded children were injected with hepatitis virus; and the Brooklyn study in which elderly patients were injected with live cancer cells. Loma Linda was at the other extreme. Here, far from being at war with the therapeutic, the experimental was almost identical with it. But not quite...
...case of discrimination, the government was reluctant to interfere in what had been a preserve of academia. A series of exposes however, on the unethical behavior of a few scientists-highlighted by the Tuskegee case, in which poor blacks with syphillis were left untreated, and the Willowbrook case, in which mentally retarded children were deliberately infected with hepatitis-demonstrated that scientists could not always be trusted to police themselves...
...most serious charge against Rivera is that his reporting is blindly onesided. In reply, Rivera is fond of quoting Edward R. Murrow: "On some stories there is no other side." Few would blame him for his editorial outrage at Willowbrook-"We've got to close that damned place down." On his first three Good-Night shows, however, he has taken stands in favor of decriminalization of marijuana, granting amnesty for draft evaders, and setting up quasi-legal red-light districts as a solution to the prostitution problem...