Sunday, 26 August 2007

Abuse of Trust III - New York's HIV Experiment

"In fact it was the drugs that were making the children ill and the children had been enrolled on the secret trials without their relatives' or guardians' knowledge."

Read on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm

Yes, there's a common theme here, all right. The question is "why?" Because people think that they can get away with it? I suppose that if one wishes to find out what people are capable of, one has to put them in a position where they believe that there will be no repercussions from their conduct, irrespective of how low the motivation was for that conduct.

Matt

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