A California medical school has issued an apology for research conducted in the 1960s and 1970s by faculty members who conducted dozens of medical experiments on thousands of prison inmates, but one of the professors involved still works at the school.
The men were “assessed or treated for psychiatric diagnoses” and the school injected their veins and skin with various pesticides and herbicides during the study.
The public is calling for the one living professor to be fired from the institution despite the professor recently suffering a stroke.
For two decades, starting during the heights of the civil rights movement and ending in 1977, two professors from the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Howard Maibach and Dr. William Epstein, conducted unethical experiments (in the name of science) on at least 2,600 incarcerated men at the California Medical Facility, a prison hospital in Vacaville. Now, the school is apologizing, claiming it did not know the…
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