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 In 1980 and 1981, the human guinea pigs used in this study would begin suing Professor Kligman for complications including lupus and psychological damage (Kaye).
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As part of a test codenamed "Big Tom," the Department of Defense sprays Oahu, Hawaii's most heavily populated island, with Bacillus globigii in order to simulate an attack on an island complex. Bacillus globigii causes infections in people with weakened immune systems, but this was not known to scientists at the time (Goliszek, Martin).
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| Arthur Wentworth turns 29 children at Boston's Children's Hospital into human guinea pigs when he performs spinal taps on them, just to test whether the procedure is harmful (Sharav).
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Harvard professor Dr. Richard Strong infects prisoners in the Philippines with cholera to study the disease; 13 of them die. He compensates survivors with cigars and cigarettes. During the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi doctors cite this study to justify their own medical experiments (Greger, Sharav).
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| House of Representatives' House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, alerting the House on the use of American veterans in VA Hospitals as human guinea pigs and calling for national reforms ("Testimony of Adil E. Shamoo, Ph.D.").
Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania inject 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger with an experimental gene therapy as part of an FDA-approved clinical trial. |
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 That's because all new pharmaceuticals are experimental, and they're used on Americans like guinea pigs. Most drugs are simply not safe, and all pharmaceuticals have unintended side effects. These drugs are released into the marketplace for the purpose of creating profit, not for the purpose of actually preventing disease or making anyone healthier.
Thus, the House bill provision that would require drug companies to openly disclose the results of their clinical trials presents a real problem for Big Pharma. |
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 It's all quite typical of Big Pharma today, which treats members of the public as revenue-producing guinea pigs who are too stupid to wake up and realize they should be questioning the outrageous claims of treatment now being associated with harmful prescription medications.
These side effects of stunting growth and altering the brain chemistry of children might conceivably be worth it if Ritalin were actually treating a genuine disease. If Ritalin, for example, were preventing brain cancer in at-risk children, it might be reasonable to trade a reduction of cancer risk with stunted growth. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 That's a weird feature we share with other higher primates (monkeys and apes), guinea pigs, the red-vented bulbul, and fruit-eating bats. Every other species in the world makes its own vitamin C. One theory is that since vitamin C is found in fruits and vegetables, and since fruits that are safe to eat are often sweet, nature in her wisdom gave us a sweet tooth so we would seek out the very foods without which we would die.
And make no mistake—without vitamin C we'd all be dead as doorknobs. Without vitamin C you can't form new collagen, the main protein in connective tissue. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Consumers who take multiple prescription drugs are literally serving as Big Pharma's guinea pigs.
There is currently no requirement whatsoever that drug side effects noticed by doctors be reported to the FDA. The entire system of reporting is purely voluntary.
The entire paradigm of pharmaceutical medicine makes no sense. Chemicals are used to treat "biomarkers" or measurable biochemical states, yet disease and dysfunction is complex and always involved more than a single measurable number. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Aqueous extracts showed uterine contracting activity in rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and on strips of human uterine material. The triterpene saponins isolated from the drug demonstrated action against human sperm. The methanol extract of the drug demonstrated estrogen activity in the Allen-Doisy-test. The saponins isolated from the powder drug with ethanol demonstrated hemolytic activity in human blood. The methanol extract of the dried powdered drug is antiviral against Herpes simplex Type I, Adenovirus Type II and Polio Type II, among others. The saponins are the active constituents. |
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 Initially, just patients with no other medical hope will be the guinea pigs. The FDA wants to run this technology in all doctor's offices around the country -- which will require your DNA in an FDA-owned government database. This is not science fiction -- this is what the FDA is on public record as wanting to do.
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 The nation becomes a population of guinea pigs. It is only down the road that the truth finally comes out, and we find out how toxic some of these drugs really are.
Do not let yourself be a guinea pig. Recognize that masking a symptom should never be confused with healing a patient. Healing can only happen from the inside. It can only happen with support: nutritional support, herbal support, and energy support. It can never happen by declaring war on some part of the body, bombarding it with chemicals or radiation, and calling that medicine. |
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 Patients are widely used as guinea pigs in any new drug launch.)
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60 percent agreed that doctors and scientists with a financial conflict of interest should not be allowed to serve on FDA advisory boards (what were the other 40 percent thinking?). |
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 The drug industry relies heavily on exploiting the poor as human guinea pigs (see Human medical experimentation in modern times: How immigrants, poor people, minorities and children are modern-day guinea pigs for Big Pharma ), for without poor people to run experiments on, there can be no official declaration that the drugs are safe enough for everyone else to take.
Not coincidentally, the multiple organ failure suffered by the victims in this particular drug trial is not uncommon to see from the long-term use of FDA-approved drugs being widely prescribed today. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Chapter Two
The Prescription Drug Disaster
A drug may be on the market for up to five years before we learn about its harmful effects, while making you and millions of Americans human guinea pigs.
The Real Drug Problem
A s noted in the first chapter, no industry has contributed more to our toxic lifestyle than the pharmaceutical industry. As this chapter will reveal, it has accomplices. When it comes to a discussion of drugs there are three schools of thought. |
| Richards goes on to say, "The Bush-appointed new FDA leadership is intent on removing any brakes being applied to the drug approval process, quite happy to turn ill Americans into human guinea pigs." A recent example of how the seeds of conflict take root for personal benefit is the former FDA Commissioner Lester M. Crawford, who recently pleaded guilty to lying about his substantial stock ownership in companies he was supposed to regulate. With the foxes guarding the henhouse, how safe do you think we are?
The rules of the FDA are in opposition to consumer protection. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| An earlier study showed that the exact same amount of vitamin C protected guinea pigs against surgically induced osteoarthritis. (Remember that free radicals can and do damage collagen and connective tissue, and the antioxidant activity of vitamin C helps protect against this damage all the while helping collagen synthesis.) And a paper published in Arthritis and Rheumatism that looked at 640 human participants from the Framingham Osteoarthritis Cohort Study found a threefold reduction in the risk of osteoarthritis progression for those with higher intakes of vitamin C. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Until that happens we're all guinea pigs. If it's in your nail polish, it's in my body. If it's in your mattress, it's in my body."
Some of Michelle's friends reacted to her story by joking that it was time to move to Idaho or some other remote location. "You J can't move anywhere on the planet anymore to avoid this stuff," Michelle pointed out. "Even if you have all the safest products in your house, you open your window, your child goes to school. You can't stick your head in the sand and stick your little butt up Erin Schrode in a prom dress and combat boots to in the air on this one. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| In a study at the University of Michigan, researchers blasted unfortunate guinea pigs with rock concert-level noise for five hours, resulting in a hearing loss of up to 50 db. But the piggies that had been given NAC prior to the experiment had only minimal hearing loss. NAC is also one powerful antioxidant.
Which makes sense because loud noises produce damaging molecules called free radicals in the ear, and antioxidants help fight the damage from free radicals, NAC (as well as other antioxidants) could conceivably be useful in preventing, minimizing, or slowing hearing loss. |
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| As a result, the psychiatric industry is treating children like guinea pigs, waiting to see what might happen after someone takes these amphetamines for a decade or longer. For all we know, Ritalin might stunt the size of the reproductive organs of these children, too, leading to future fertility problems. Perhaps the "Ritalin generation" won't be able to have babies. This is just a guess, but the important point here is that the psychiatric industry is guessing, too. Nobody knows. Long-term testing has not been done. |
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| Activation of phagocytes has been demonstrated in animal tests in rabbits and guinea pigs, along with an increase in serum bactericides and stimulation of (3-lysine. In addition, in animal tests, immune resistance to Herpes simplex viruses of the eye was proved. In the ring test, stimulation and formation of granulation tissue was demonstrated in rats. In mice, there was a clear increase in the survival rate in cases of general infection. No significant results were recorded in cases where infections had no or only a low leucocytic immune reaction. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Some children have asthmatic reactions to horses, mice, rabbits or guinea pigs also.
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As mentioned above, there is evidence that babies at risk of developing asthma are benefited by being breastfed for at least six months. You should also be careful when introducing solid foods into the diet. Dairy foods of all kinds are often allergic triggers, and wheat-based foods affect some people. Oranges, strawberries, eggs, nuts ... the list goes on. However, you can't—and should not attempt to—eliminate every potential allergen from your child's diet. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Altogether in these inhalation experiments they studied thirty hamsters, eighteen rabbits, eight guinea pigs, four kittens, five baboons, and four monkeys. Unfortunately, only the baboon experiments provided any indication of the respiratory or systemic responses anticipated.
One experimental option remained. The researchers placed themselves in turn in the same chamber, each undergoing exposure to sterilized cotton, stained cotton, and then normal cotton intentionally contaminated with suspect bacteria. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Antiasthmatic and antiallergic effect: guinea pigs sensitized using ovalbumin were protected from asthma attack through the oral administration of onion juice. Administration of an ethanol onion extract significantly reduced allergy-induced bronchial constriction in asthma patients. |
Andrew L. Stoll
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 When the guinea pigs all died, Cade decided to dilute the urine to reduce the toxic uric acid content, and try again. Reckoning (mistakenly) that adding the element lithium would aid in dissolving the uric acid, he tested lithium itself on the guinea pigs. guinea pigs are known for their dramatic startle reaction when placed on their backs, but Cade's lithium-treated guinea pigs were remarkably placid.
Acting on a hunch, Cade decided to try lithium therapy on his patients, including ten with mania, six with schizophrenia, and three diagnosed with psychotic depression. |
David De Angelis
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 In these studies, lenses were used to induce specific adaptations of animals' (chickens' and Guinea pigs') refractive state. The result was that the eyes adapted themselves toward myopia, using negative lenses that were causing hyperopic defocus and axial elongation of the eyeball. This "adaptation effect" is the unfortunate result of using the improper optical correction.
Let me repeat: Myopia, when corrected with negative lenses, results in myopia worsening. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 A flurry of research continued on humans, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, and even turkeys, all with similar results. Ribose administration significantly improved energy recovery in ischemic, hypoxic, or cardiomyopathic hearts and muscles, and improved functional performance of the tissue. In addition, studies with several common heart drugs—those used even today—showed that ribose administration did not negatively affect (and in many cases helped) the action of the drug on the heart. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 By the turn of the twenty-first century, monks had become the favorite guinea pigs of the neuroscience laboratory. Scientists from Princeton, Harvard, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California-Davis followed Benson's lead by wiring up monks to state-of-the-art monitoring equipment and studying the effects of intensive, advanced meditation. Entire conferences were held on meditation and the brain.3
It was not the practice itself that fascinated these scientists, but its effect on the human body, particularly the brain, and the possibilities this suggested. |
Bill Sardi
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 Experimental Cell Biology 50: 34-38, 1982]
1982: Vitamin C was given to mice and guinea pigs with leukemia that were being treated with the anti-cancer drug Adriamycin. The vitamin C-treated animals survived longer and had less heart damage caused by the drug. Cancer doctors continue to resist the use of antioxidants when employing toxic anti-cancer drugs like Adriamycin. [Cancer Research 42: 309-16, 1982]
1982: An evaluation of the mega-dose vitamin C studies conducted by Drs. |
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 In other words, they made good guinea pigs.
In 2004 the university boasted it had 136 scientists managing clinical trials for the industry. It was involved in so many drug trials that it had negotiated standard written contracts with more than a dozen companies to save time.
But there were problems. Drug companies were asking for waivers from the university's requirement that the results be published soon after the trial was completed. Without this rule, there was a risk the public would never learn about a study that found a medicine had dangerous side effects or did not work as expected. |
Ann N. Martin
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 About 95 percent of the four million animals used in testing are mice, rats, and other rodents such as guinea pigs and hamsters. But rabbits, dogs, cats, primates, birds, and fish are also used.
Many of these animals are used in human medical research. Medical schools often use dogs to teach basic physiology and pharmacology. Nancy Harrison, MD, from the association, Doctors Against Dog Labs, writes, "In dog labs, students or instructors typically anesthetize a dog, cut open the dog's chest and use its beating heart to demonstrate principles of physiology and pharmacology. |
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