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Study Author Deemed Nazi-like by Maryland Appeals Court
April 27, 2008 by Anonymous, 1 year 30 weeks ago
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You said,
"The need to increase scientific literacy among people is not just limited to the marginalized and under-educated, specifically black people. I keep discovering that even presumably well-educated black people are still prone to get keyed up emotionally and are largely ignorant about science and how it proceeds."
First of all, I am not "marginalized and under-educated." I'm a Black lawyer, and the Blacks who are angry about this are lawyers, accountants, professors and professional journalists of the AfroSpear, among others.
This same scientist engaged in "research" that was compared to Nazi experiments by a court in Maryland, because he experimented exclusively on Black people in an that should be considered unethical regardless of the color of the victims.
"HUD documents show the study's lead author, Mark Farfel, has pursued several other studies of lead contamination including the risks of exposure from urban housing demolitions and the vacant lots left behind.
(. . . )
Some of Farfel's previous research has been controversial.
In 2001, Maryland's highest court chastised him, Kennedy Krieger and Johns Hopkins over a study bankrolled by EPA in which researchers testing low-cost ways to control lead hazards exposed more than 75 poor children to lead-based paint in partially renovated houses.
Families of two children alleged to have suffered elevated blood-lead levels and brain damage sued the institute and later settled for an undisclosed amount.
The Maryland Court of Appeals likened the study to Nazi medical research on concentration camp prisoners, the U.S. government's 40-year Tuskegee study that denied treatment for syphilis to black men in order to study the illness and Japan's use of "plague bombs" in World War II to infect and study entire villages." YahooNews
The question to be answered here is why this "scientist" conducts his experiments exclusively upon Black people.
I don't understand why you are defending him, unless you think that exposing people to contaminants based on their skin color is an acceptable way to conduct scientific research.
Would YOU consider it ethical behavior to expose exclusively Black people to harmful contaminants, even after the "Maryland Court of Appeals likened the study to Nazi medical research"?
If so, then you shouldn't be permitted to engage in scientific research and at all, and particularly not with the approval and funding of the United States Government.
I am the editor of the American Journal of Color Arousal (AMJCA).