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Left Coast2020

(2,397 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 04:29 PM Apr 2013

We are the Guinea Pigs

Today, we are all unwitting subjects in the largest set of drug trials ever. Without our knowledge or consent, we are testing thousands of suspected toxic chemicals and compounds, as well as new substances whose safety is largely unproven and whose effects on human beings are all but unknown. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) itself has begun monitoring our bodies for 151 potentially dangerous chemicals, detailing the variety of pollutants we store in our bones, muscle, blood, and fat. None of the companies introducing these new chemicals has even bothered to tell us we’re part of their experiment. None of them has asked us to sign consent forms or explained that they have little idea what the long-term side effects of the chemicals they’ve put in our environment -- and so our bodies -- could be. Nor do they have any clue as to what the synergistic effects of combining so many novel chemicals inside a human body in unknown quantities might produce.


http://truth-out.org/news/item/16052-how-americans-became-exposed-to-biohazards-in-the-greatest-uncontrolled-experiment-ever-launched

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We are the Guinea Pigs (Original Post) Left Coast2020 Apr 2013 OP
Universal healthcare for all KT2000 Apr 2013 #1

KT2000

(20,577 posts)
1. Universal healthcare for all
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 04:48 PM
Apr 2013

These chemicals are forced upon us and so are the ills that can result. Right now it is tough luck and you are on your own to face the chemical companies' consequences.

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