MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION

The United States of America has claimed to be the one and only world leader in medicine. We all know that the United States is undoubtedly responsible for numerous scientific breakthroughs but what we don’t know is to what extent they are taking their advances. Today, our population is being subjected to medical experiments everyday ! Did you know that 50 % of Americans take at least one prescribed drug and that 20% of them are school children...taking mind altering amphetamines like Ritalin or antidepressants like Prozac ?! Even our children are being openly subjected to this exploitation of drugs in the new society we have developed. We all know that in the 21st Century we are all exposed to medical treatment for pretty much everything and the consumption is overwhelming !!

A question you may ask yourselves is: we consume everyday a huge amount of medications, but how do we know that they work ? How much do we trust the pharmaceutical industry ?

Well, you know that it works because before you are able to be prescribed this drug it is tested and retested, denied, approved..and so forth. The ‘’drugs’’ your doctor has prescribed for your consumption has been clinically tested on a human being. So now you may ask yourselves:

Why do we do human experimentation ?

Well for one, many people believe that it is wrong to use animals as subject to experimentation. In fact, it is even prohibited in Europe since July 11th 2013. Secondly, because if you are testing on a human you will surely get more effective results, taking in account that you are using human based tests.

Now lets take a leap back into the past, most of America's medical experimentation was realized in the 20th Century. The medical "testings'' were most commonly performed on children, the sick, the mentally disabled, the poor, racial minorities and prisoners, and most of them had no consent or even knowledge of the testing. Most were killed or seriously injured. ''Such individuals seemed to offer an unusual opportunity to study the untreated syphilitic patients from the beginning of the disease to the death of the infected person. An opportunity was also offered to compare the syphilitc process uninfluenced by modern treatment, with the results attained when treatment had been given. Worse, there was no informed consent, and considerable inducements were offered to the men to join the study.’’ This is an anonymous statement from the ‘’Tuskegee syphilis study’’ around 1972, one of the many experiments done on human subject, to creat an advance in our medecin. These human experimentations were and are seen as unethical -immoral-. However, without human experimentation the scientists wouldn't have and will never know if the end results of all that elegant science will actually do what it is intended to do: to make real human patients better. It is with human experimentation that ethics and science tend to clash !

And guess what ?!?

Now a days, what was once forced on the poor and sick is now becoming a job, they are called ‘’guinea piggers’’ and they are paid to do clinical trials. This ‘’job’’ is apparently as hard as getting a real one, because of the high standards -age, weight, dietary regime- ! Of course this job is at your own risk, you are not insured by the government and if you die…well…let's just hope you don’t die.

All in all, whether you like it or not human experimentation is happening and has been happening for the past decades. It has been helping scientists advances in the medical department and they have been able to cure many life threatening diseases but every year more viruses spread as our population grows and we are still in the shadow for many diseases such as cancer, EBOLA, AIDS... We are deeply in need of medical and scientific advances !

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