December 24, 2022 5:46pm EST
California university apologizes for 'unethical' experiments on prison inmates
The experiments included injecting pesticides into the veins of prisoners
By Andrew Mark Miller | Fox News
A prominent California medical school is apologizing for conducting dozens of experiments on prison inmates in the 1960s and 1970s that it now says were unethical.
Two dermatologists at the University of California, San Francisco — one of whom remains at the university — conducted the experiments of at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and herbicides on the men’s skin and injecting it into their veins.
The experiments were conducted at the California Medical Facility, a prison hospital in Vacaville that’s about 50 miles northeast of San Francisco. The practice was halted in 1977.
"UCSF apologizes for its explicit role in the harm caused to the subjects, their families and our community by facilitating this research, and acknowledges the institution’s implicit role in perpetuating unethical treatment of vulnerable and underserved populations — regardless of the legal or perceptual standards of the time," Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Dan Lowenstein said in a statement on the school website.
The statement added that the men "volunteered for the studies and were paid for participating."
"But the report raises ethical concerns over how the research was conducted."
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