The Bastion Of Progressivism: Cali University APOLOGIZES After Cruel Prisoner Experiments Revealed

 Fox News revealed the latest, sordid chapter of this history that did not come from Nazi Germany or the 1930s Jim Crow south. Instead, the medical experiment occurred in San Francisco, California, during the 1960s and 1970s.

The University of California at San Francisco Medical School selected prison inmates, placed herbicides and pesticides on their skin, and injected them into their veins. The Medical School conducted the experiments at a prison hospital called the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, 50 miles from San Francisco. The test subjects were 2600 men incarcerated during the 1960s and

...The University’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Dan Lowenstein, also issued a statement. “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.”

...The statement also acknowledged that the University engaged in “questionable” informed consent practices. The University paid the inmate test subjects $30 a month for their participation in the experiments...more