Science works, B**ch!

Scientists killed Amazon Indians to test race theory.

A couple of points.

1.  Color me skeptical that anyone in the 1960s would have contemplated this kind of research. I could be wrong, but my sense is that this kind of thing would have been unthinkable so soon after the scientific horrors of World War II.

2.  On the other hand, science - like atheism - does not have a moral schedule of values.  We don't look for morals in or with science. Science is utilitarian and indifferent to values that cannot be materially measured. For science - and atheism - values have to come from outside.

Great moments in the Ethics of Science.

Sociological experiments that taught racism:

Her exercise wasn't the first to look at how even small children form into factions and develop an irrational contempt for others. In 1961, psychologist Muzafer Sherif had two groups of 12-year-old boys camp out in Robber's Cave State Park in Oklahoma. After getting each group to bond within the group, Sherif had the groups compete in a tournament, with games like tug-of-war or baseball. The winning group got pocket knives. That was an ill-advised prize. The two groups started turf wars, seizing playing fields, burning each other's flags, ransacking each other's cabins, and getting so violent that the psychologists had to separate them. //

The government is just another word for "all of us"....

....like when an Eskimo village invites an old person to jump on an iceberg.

The Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting dangerous experiments on humans over the past few years in order to justify more onerous clean air regulations.

The agency conducted tests on people with health issues and the elderly, exposing them to high levels of potentially lethal pollutants, without disclosing the risks of cancer and death, according to a newly released government report.

These experiments exposed people, including those with asthma and heart problems, to dangerously high levels of toxic pollutants, including diesel fumes, reads a EPA inspector general report obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The EPA also exposed people with health issues to levels of pollutants up to 50 times greater than the agency says is safe for humans.

The EPA conducted five experiments in 2010 and 2011 to look at the health effects of particulate matter, or PM, and diesel exhaust on humans. The IG’s report found that the EPA did get consent forms from 81 people in five studies. But the IG also found that “exposure risks were not always consistently represented.”

“Further, the EPA did not include information on long-term cancer risks in its diesel exhaust studies’ consent forms,” the IG’s report noted. “An EPA manager considered these long-term risks minimal for short-term study exposures” but “human subjects were not informed of this risk in the consent form.”

According to the IG’s report, “only one of five studies’ consent forms provided the subject with information on the upper range of the pollutant” they would be exposed to, but even more alarming is that only “two of five alerted study subjects to the risk of death for older individuals with cardiovascular disease.”//

Hey!  It's Science!

So, it must be good.

Read more: