Speaking of consent issues

[james_davis_nicoll]

'Scientists' used residential school children for ESP research

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[(Anonymous)]

Nuremburg Code was 1947, but that seems to have been non-enforceable.

According to NIH, the first US law was 1962. Lots of regulations etc over the years, with different standards in difference departments, until they were unified in the 1980s. Tinkering seems ongoing, and I suspect that patent protection has a lot to do with some of the rules.

Brief summary here:

http://history.nih.gov/about/timelines_laws_human.html

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

Recent dodgyness involves commercial drug testing being outsourced to developing countries with less strict (or nonexistent) oversight of clinical trials.

The stuff you hear from the alt-med crowd is nonsense as always, but it is nonetheless true that the people running the big pharma companies are utter bastards.