October 27, 2006
The Human Rights of Scientists
It's not often noticed, but world over, scientists suffer many human rights abuses. In News@nature.com:
Six medical workers are on trial in Libya, facing the death penalty for deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV, despite the fact that international experts say there is no evidence of their guilt (see 'A shocking lack of evidence').
And around the world, dozens of other scientists and physicians await verdicts of their own, after being imprisoned for dissenting with their government, fired for publishing unwelcome studies, or harassed for carrying out unwanted research.
The three profiles below give a taste of what some researchers face. They do not include the many who have been arrested in countries such as China, Ethiopia, Turkey, and Burma — to name a few — for speaking against their government.
Nor do they include tragic cases such as that of anthropologist Nikolai Girenko, who was studying racism in Russia when he was shot and killed in St Petersburg in 2004; Myrna Mack, a Guatemalan anthropologist who was stabbed to death in Guatemala City in 1990 after publishing a report documenting the murder of civilians by the military during the country's 36-year guerrilla war; or the many Iraqi academics who have been assassinated over the past three years (see 'Scientists become targets in Iraq').
Posted by Robin Varghese at 04:55 PM | Permalink
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Would it not be a "human right" of any scientist to have his work evaluated objectively and fairly and truthfully by other "scientists" especially those employed by the U.S. National Cancer Institute or the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration? There are examples right here in our back yard in the old USA where human rights of certain scientists are being routinely violated, abused and trashed by other so-called "scientists", but who are in fact tyrants. For example, take a read of the document "The Truth About Hydrazine Sulfate-Dr. Gold Speaks", 2005 at www.hydrazinesulfate.org. This 20 page document with 78 references is written by Joseph Gold, M.D., a distinguished medical doctor in Syracuse, N.Y., who also did graduate work at UC Berkeley in the 1950's. He has spent the greater part of his professional life seeking to have this cheap and effective substance legally approved by the Gestapo FDA of the U.S. This substance has been demonstrated to be effective (to varying degrees) for treating cancer in advanced cancer patients. It is not a cure, but has been shown, in studies from the Soviet Union to UCLA, many done by Dr. Gold himself, to benefit cancer patients with the so-called disease cachexia (wasting away of the body due to cancer running on sugar and dumping lactic acid into the body from glycolysis as proved by Dr. Otto Warburg, M.D., Ph.D. decades ago).
What he has received, has been lying and obstruction and misrepresentation by the Cancer Generals of this substance, even to the point of posting false information on a government website by them! How many suffering cancer patients suffer as a consequence of this? The Cancer Generals should and must be criminally charged with scientific misconduct and criminal medical fraud by the U.S. Attorney General and all States' Attorneys General. Perhaps if they refuse to do the job they are "sworn" to do, us lowly citizens may have to convene special "Citizens' Courts" to do the job our appointed "justice" officials won't or refuse to do.
Even Dr. Otto Warburg M.D., Ph.D., has been obstructed and lied about by the Cancer Generals in their patent disregard for his seminal discovery of the prime cause of cancer decades ago; respiratory impairment of living cells, based on actual laboratory experiments, not genetic speculations. Yet these same Cancer Generals blithely go along their merry way dolling out more government tax money for failed genetics research when still, after the expendature of billions of dollars, one person dies every minute either from cancer, "treatment" or both in the U.S. This amount to over a half million persons every year and is a national, medical emergency. The Cancer Generals need to be summarily fired and criminally charged with scientific misconduct and medical, criminal fraud against the American People and humanity. By the way, it is unlikely the Cancer Generals have even read a single one of Dr. Warburg's 500+ scientific papers in German, or even those translated into English.
Posted by: Winfield J. Abbe | Oct 28, 2006 9:41:57 AM
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