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DaoFerret t1_itq36r9 wrote

Reply to comment by Thugluvdoc in If each side of our body is controlled by the opposite brain hemisphere, how do we blink in sync? by killians1978

Also: Imperial Japan

(asterisk for US Government experiments on its own citizens)

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dgendreau t1_itq81nl wrote

No need for an asterisk. The US government has a long history of conducting unethical medical experiments on unsuspecting US citizens. For example, they conducted the Tuskeege experiments to see what happens long term when you lie to African American soldiers and dont actually treat them for Siphilis. There was also the Manhattan Project offshoot where they secretly injected hospital patients in Rochester NY with plutonium and posed as their primary care physicians to continue study them for the rest of their lives, well into the 1990s.

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FlaminJake t1_itqpdnt wrote

And conducting experiments on OTHER countries citizens while they're in their own country. They hit a French village with a massive dose of LSD, beyond what anyone would take recreationally, before any layman knew what it was. The US is a bastard and always has been.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-10996838

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fogcat5 t1_itrirav wrote

Also, there are a lot of unethical drug experiments the government performed throughout the 50s and 60s maybe other times too. They destroyed people like Kazinsky and then called him mentally insane and a danger to the world justifying even more power and control to keep everyone safe - when their uncontrolled power is the cause of the problem.

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Web-Dude t1_itq6kew wrote

wth imagine comparing what happened in the US to Unit 731 or Josef Mengele. A little perspective please.

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FlaminJake t1_itqsnp2 wrote

Imagine not comparing them. Comparing and contrasting torturous experiments done by Empires sounds like something you should do. While Japan and Germany are definitely worse, the US has committed serious atrocities, ie Tuskegee Airmen and many other experiments done on black people. This is how you get perspective.

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-1KingKRool- t1_itq8qpo wrote

Not to mention people overblow the impact of the records from Unit 731, at a minimum.

They told us nothing we didn’t already know, and bought war criminals pardons from justice.

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imafraidofmuricans t1_itqys8f wrote

If the US is much better then comparing them will show the US in good light and as such it shouldn't be a problem.

Right?

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