(Written 16th of October, 2002)
- After all, it's a question about money and time. Those things are depended on each others in drug and medical research. The more time the company spends to test their new drug, the more money they spend and that way the profit that they get is a smaller one. And when you start to think about the fact, that usually the drug industry pays bonus to doctors and researchers that participate into these researches, by performing them in their own hospital or in some other place. Then the whole pattern seems highly questionable, when it comes to ethics. This kind of pattern happened to Roger Darke who participated in a research that studied gene therapy treatments, under the guidance of a hospital doctor. After Roger died during this research, it came to public that the hospital and the doctor that had been guiding this experiment, would have gained billions of dollars, if the experiment would have succeed.
- I don't know about the rest of you, but at least I wouldn't feel myself safe even in a taxi, if I would know that the taxi driver would get a bonus, the faster he gets me where ever I want to go. It's the same thing. The faster the taxi driver is in that place where I want, the faster he can't get another passenger.
- I do admit, that drug industry hasn't just achieved to cause death, sorrow and pain. There has been a lot of good things too, that has come out from developing new drugs. However, it's a good thing to keep in mind that, on who's bodies and minds these steps of advancements has been done.
- As depressing as it is to read this kind of subject, the fact remains that even though GlaxcoSmithKline in the seventies let defective vaccine to be sold to general public. Result being that many child suffered brain damage or died. This still probably was a good thing, because something was learned from this. Maybe even something valuable things for drug industry. You learn from mistakes and there is only one guinea pig class, to which you can test how the drugs, medical acts and pollution react in humans. The Homo Sapiens. Of course you can test with animals if the drug that they are developing is so lethal that it kills the animal instantly. But if you want something more detailed information, then you will have to test it with humans and even the law requires this. This is totally good thing of course, that they are trying to develop a drug that is a safe one. But is this really the only unselfish motivation that they have? The more you read about these unethical examples, the more doubtful you come. The money being what makes this world turn around every day. That's why many people are willing to go to some extreme things, even in this field.
- During our history, people have been tortured in the name of science, with a very strange arguments. Now days researchers are trying to get every benefit they can from these horrible experiments done during the history. The most horrible experiments without a doubt, were performed by the German concentration camp doctors, during the 1940s. In the modern day society, many researchers would like to and actually are using the results of these experiments as a ground of their experiments. In 1984 it was revealed that researchers from British Colombia had been using results from hypothermia experiments that were performed by Nazi doctors. This hypothermia experiments kept inside the following procedure. The concentration camp prisoner was put into a sitting position in a freezing water, without a chance of getting out. The goal with this test was to find a way to keep the German pilots safe, if their plane would be shot down over the North Sea. There are a lot of examples of using results of concentration camp tests in modern science.
- At least in my mind wakes up the question, that is my life more important, than the life of those six million people that died in these camps? Answer to this question isn't so simple. If we accept of using the results achieved, if any, in concentration camp experiments, in our modern science. Then we might think that at least those six million unfortunate people didn't die in vain, but on the other hand, is it then fair that someone will benefit financially from these cruel tests?
- I will not comment animal tests in this writing more than quoting a statement made by German doctors in Nuremberg trial when they were asked that how they were able to perform so horrible and cruel experiments on living human beings? Their answer was: "We had been training with animals".
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