Up jumped the devil.
DownInFlames wrote: “Clear violation of the Nuremberg laws.”
There is no such thing as the Nuremburg Law. There is a Nuremburg Code, but it has not been incorporated into law either by act of Congress or by Treaty.
How convenient.
The Nuremberg Code (German: Nürnberger Kodex) is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation
created by the U.S. v Brandt court
as one result of the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War. In a review written on the 50th anniversary of the Brandt verdict, Katz writes that “a careful reading of the judgment suggests that [the authors] wrote the Code for the practice of human experimentation whenever it is being conducted
Up jumped the devil.
There is no such thing as the Nuremburg Law. There is a Nuremburg Code, but it has not been incorporated into law either by act of Congress or by Treaty.
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Some parts of the Nuremberg Code have been incorporated into Federal Code. And there have been court cases which uphold some of those.
For example:
45 CFR Sec. 46.116
10 U.S.C. 1107
21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3
Canterbury v Spence - It was recognized that consent required the informed exercise of choice. The disclosure made by the doctor should have provided the patient with an opportunity to assess the available options and the risks of such options.
Cobbs v Grant - held that a physician is bound to disclose all known material risks peculiar to the proposed procedure.
Wilkinson v Vesey - held that a physician is bound to disclose all known material risks peculiar to the proposed procedure.
Big Pharma’s lawyers can use that (”no law”) in their defense—before their clients are executed by firing squads for crimes against humanity.