The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950
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The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950
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#2We're going to test the effect of nuclear weapons on San Franscisco so we can understand the effects of nuclear weapons on San Franscisco so we can protect San Francisco from a future attack by nuclear weapons or so we can understand the effect of the nuclear blast on Vladivostok. Sounds rather like the Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment. To be fair though, the United States of far from the only country that has done this sort of thing.
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#3To their defense, they seem to have thought that they were using harmless bacteria. The background seems to be that they wanted to test the distribution of the bacteria rather than the effects on humans (which they thought to be zero any way).
Add to that the fact that bacterial infections often hitchhike on other injuries, infections or conditions, it's not clear that the death was entirely the fault of the particular bacterium.
In any case, it was a violation of the Nuremberg code, and I'd hope no democratic state would do such a thing in the current time.
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#4To their defense, they seem to have thought that they were using harmless bacteria. The background seems to be that they wanted to test the distribution of the bacteria rather than the effects on humans (which they thought to be zero any way). Add to that the fact that bacterial infections often hitchhike on other injuries, infections or conditions, it's not clear that the death was entirely the fault of the particul…
I'd hope no democratic state would do such a thing in the current time.
Wishful thinking. Let's hope we can meet again in 50 years and chat about the good old times.
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#5To their defense, they seem to have thought that they were using harmless bacteria. The background seems to be that they wanted to test the distribution of the bacteria rather than the effects on humans (which they thought to be zero any way). Add to that the fact that bacterial infections often hitchhike on other injuries, infections or conditions, it's not clear that the death was entirely the fault of the particul…
I would hope NO state would do such a thing in the current time. We are well past the point in civilization to accept this type of action from any state or organization.
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#6They did the same in NY City and Washington DC [0].
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#7The people of San Francisco had their personalities permanently altered through the Navy's inadvertent distribution of peace juice? The U.S. military created the hippie movement and ended the Vietnam war. Impressive.
What other great wrongs can be righted through careful mass infection of populations?
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#8The US government did all sorts of crazy tests on people in the 50s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
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#9The people of San Francisco had their personalities permanently altered through the Navy's inadvertent distribution of peace juice? The U.S. military created the hippie movement and ended the Vietnam war. Impressive. What other great wrongs can be righted through careful mass infection of populations?
Maybe the feds liked going to San Francisco enough that they made testing biological or chemical weapons a thing there, like the time the CIA spiked a bunch of people with LSD, including an armed federal marshal who was tripping so bad he almost shot a bartender.
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#10"... the court held that the government was immune to a lawsuit for negligence and that they were justified in conducting tests without subjects' knowledge.".
I sincerely hope there was some rationale to this decision that I do not know or understand. Otherwise it would be very hard for me to have any faith left in our judicial system.