A California university is apologizing for conducting 'unethical' experiments on thousands of prison inmates that included injecting them with pesticides.
Fox News' Laura Ingle reporting from California's Mule Creek State Prison, where Peterson could spend the rest of his life.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
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