you’d think they give experimental medications to the poor in exchange for cash

  • @knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    They definitely do. You can volunteer for such trials. The pay isn’t very good though, maybe enough for a few days worth of groceries.

    Prisoners have also been used for medical and cosmetic experimentation.

  • @ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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    Drug trials are very common. They can basically give you literal cyanide and then compensate you with 10 dollars and a Starbuck coupon.

  • ButtigiegMineralMap
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    I mean…they do in a roundabout way. Not completely intentionally but they don’t give a shit about peoples health during Medical drug testing trials. I listen to a podcast where a guest explains that he sells his plasma to afford rent(around 100-200$USD each time he donates), and he said after doing it a few times, his bones started to ache. He did a little research and found out that in Europe and many other places, you can only donate plasma every 2 weeks and you have to be in ok shape to give plasma. Basically this guest was going 4 times a week because US regulations on plasma donations are SO weak and geared towards profit that they allow people to hurt themselves for cash. The guest said himself that the US doesn’t care about the heath of the patient, they are just after the cash in their veins. Not to mention that the guest also takes trial drugs that may or may not be safe, he also isn’t allowed to impregnate anyone because his sperm is most likely hazardous for a baby to develop properly. The guest rents out a basement. So I mean is that human experimentation? Some would say no some would say yes, but the US certainly isn’t working hard to take an Anti-human-experimentation position. It’s not like Nazi experiments where they would do god awful things to twins and minorities in the name of “science” these days, it usually is part of medical studies and as coercive as it is, the US can claim people are doing this willingly, which we all know isn’t true.

  • @SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
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    I don’t know if this counts but I do remember something about the CIA trafficking cocaine into predominantly black neighbourhoods to essentially fuel the War On Drugs.

  • @panic@lemmygrad.ml
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    I doubt they would pay poor people for eggs or sperm. The fertility industry is full of eugenics.

    • Arthur BesseA
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      Many US residents do sell their blood, but apparently not enough to meet the demand:

      2019: Pharmaceutical Companies Are Luring Mexicans Across the U.S. Border to Donate Blood Plasma

      Every week, thousands of Mexicans cross the border into the U.S. on temporary visas to sell their blood plasma to profit-making pharmaceutical companies that lure them with Facebook ads and colorful flyers promising hefty cash rewards.

      The donors, including some who say the payments are their only income, may take home up to $400 a month if they donate twice a week and earn various incentives, including “buddy bonuses” for recruiting friends or family. Unlike other nations that limit or forbid paid plasma donations at a high frequency out of concern for donor health and quality control, the U.S. allows companies to pay donors and has comparatively loose standards for monitoring their health.

      2021: The U.S. Is Closing a Loophole That Lured Mexicans Over the Border to Donate Blood Plasma for Cash

      U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on June 15 that effective immediately, it would no longer permit Mexican citizens to cross into the U.S. on temporary visas to sell their blood plasma. A statement provided to ProPublica and ARD said that donating plasma is now considered “labor for hire,” which is illegal under the visitor visa most border residents use to cross into the United States to make donations.

      2022: Pharma Companies Sue for the Right to Buy Blood From Mexicans Along Border

      A year after the U.S. barred Mexicans from crossing the border to sell their blood, pharmaceutical companies have acknowledged that those donations provided as much as 10% of the plasma collected nationwide as they seek to have the ban overturned.

  • @MedicareForSome
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    Neoliberalism has outsourced all of the human experimentation jobs to the global south.