EPA TO ALLOW TESTING ON ORPHANS & HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
POSTED BY: Storymark
UPDATED: Monday, December 5, 2005 17:51
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I'm rather sickened by the whole notion. It's one thing to have heathly VOLUNTEER subjects for research (psych tests, etc) but using kids that cannot choose for themselves...that makes me ill. I work with 32 severely and profoundly disabled adults, who have little to no say in what happens to them. They have to rely on their guardians and family to take care of them. The guardians I know would be appalled by the very notion of any research testing on their folks.
It kind of reminds me of the Terry Schiavo thing - every time I saw her face on TV, I could see my clients in her place. It makes me said that some people still consider our disabled population as second class, ie no better than research animals.
The EPA bothers me anyway.
Peck: "I want these men arrested! Captain, these men are in direct violation of the Environmental Protection Act...and this explosion is the direct result of it!"
Egon: "Your MOTHER!!!!"
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"Yet again an interesting mix of truth and scare has been loosed upon us all. While the November 2004 e-mail quoted above was relatively factual, its wording left those who received it with an impression far removed from the truth."
"The EPA would not have been administering pesticides to children. Children who were already exposed to pesticides due to where they lived would have been studied by the EPA."
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/cheers.asp
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Why didn't Congress just apply the Nuremburg Code to the EPA? The NIH uses it. Unless, of course, Congress is also a captured agency.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
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Oops. 
Let my mouth run before checking snopes! Still the very idea of the loopholes is ugly.
Your mouth is talking, Jayne. Better look to that.
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