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Nuremberg, 1947
Brownstone Institute ^ | March 31, 2022 | Aaron Kheriaty

Posted on 03/31/2022 11:23:27 AM PDT by Heartlander

Nuremberg, 1947

In the 1930s, German medicine and German healthcare institutions were widely considered the most advanced in the world. However, subtle but enormously consequential shifts had been underway decades before Hitler came to power, starting with the rise of the eugenics movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1922, Alfred Hoche and Karl Binding, a psychiatrist and a lawyer, published an influential book, Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life. A metaphor from this and other influential works captured the imagination of the German medical establishment, undermining the traditional Hippocratic ethic that had governed medicine since antiquity.

Instead of serving the health of the individual patient presenting for treatment, German physicians were encouraged to be responsible for the “health” of the “social organism”—the volk—as a whole.

Instead of seeing afflicted individuals as sick and in need of compassionate medical care, German doctors became agents of a socio-political program driven by a cold and calculating utilitarian ethos. If the social organism was construed as healthy or sick, some individuals (e.g., those with cognitive or physical disabilities) were characterized as “cancers” on the volk. And what do doctors do with cancers but eliminate them? 

The first people gassed by the Nazis were not Jews in concentration camps (that came later), but disabled patients in psychiatric hospitals, murdered under the Third Reich’s “T4 Euthanasia Program.” Each of these death warrants was signed by a German physician. Even after the lethal regime turned its attention on Jews and other ethnic minorities, they continued to deploy quasi-public health justifications: Recall that the Jews were routinely demonized by the Nazis as “spreaders of disease.” If physicians serve not the needs of sick and vulnerable patients, but are agents of a social program, the German example shows us what happens when that social program is misdirected by a corrupt regime.

When the atrocities of the Nazi doctors were revealed at the postwar Nuremberg trials, the world rightly condemned German physicians and scientists who participated. That their actions were legal under the Nazi regime was not an adequate defense; these doctors were convicted at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity. To avoid such disasters in the future, the central principle of research ethics and medical ethics—namely, the free and informed consent of the research subject or patient—was then clearly articulated in the Nuremberg Code. Here is the first of 10 points articulated in the Code:

The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.

This principle was further developed in the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association, the Belmont Report commissioned by the U.S. Federal Government in the 1970s, and subsequently codified under the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations in the “Common Rule,” the law governing human-subjects research in the United States.

Fast forward to 2020. In the face of the novel coronavirus, and the fears generated by media propaganda, the principle of free and informed consent was once again abandoned. The most egregious, but my no means the only, example was vaccine mandates enacted while the vaccines were still under emergency-use authorization, and, thus, by our federal government’s own definition, “experimental.”

How and why was the bulwark of 20th-century medical ethics abandoned so quickly, and with so little opposition from the medical and scientific establishment? What were the immediate effects? What will be the long-term, consequences of the shift back to a crass utilitarian ethic governing science, medicine, and public health during a pandemic?


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History; Society
KEYWORDS: compulsory; mandate; medicalexperiment; nuremburg; nuremburg1947; nuremburgcode; virus
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To: logi_cal869

If the FDA and CDC designed the studies to use the protocol that many medical professionals used and stated that worked, then they would have found out.

But they didn’t want to find out otherwise, they could not get the EUA needed to push their bioweapon shot.


61 posted on 04/26/2022 5:41:13 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Careful, FRiend....you’ll be called a Chinese Russian bot, too....by the CDC 9 to 5/99.5% $hot $hill posts bot, too ;-)

It must get comped by the replies.


62 posted on 04/26/2022 6:04:03 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: metmom

Facts matter not, to the FR $hift working $hot$hill.


63 posted on 04/26/2022 6:05:01 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: DugwayDuke; Jane Long
Only because you’re acting like a Russian/Chinese bot trying to spread discord and disinformation about the vaccines.

No, she's not.

The COVID shots are therapeutic at best, and only meet the definition of 'vaccine' (barely) because...they changed the definition.

They are NOT vaccines, and by any prior standard these shots would have been withdrawn from use months ago.

But even the slippery slope argument of "reducing hospitalizations/deaths" destroys the 'vaccine' premise when 'vaxxed' people spread the virus, get infected themselves and - as reported, REPEATEDLY - a higher ratio of jabbed are dying than those who were young/healthy enough to resist coercion in the face of an establishment which KILLED tens of thousands of hospitalized patients with their so-called therapies while WITHHOLDING effective therapies used elsewhere on the planet.

Perhaps you have a link to the randomized, double-blind study explaining why Africans are fractionally at risk to this virus compared to industrialized nations.

HmmmMMMMM????

64 posted on 04/26/2022 6:07:56 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: metmom

Exactly.


65 posted on 04/26/2022 6:10:35 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Jane Long

What’s staggering, or perhaps pathetic, is that the $hot $hill$ still post the same crap about the proven useless and dangerous injections as if by repeating it enough, even in the face of all evidence contrary to it, they still think they are going to convince someone they are right.

The only ones they are fooling are themselves.


66 posted on 04/26/2022 6:18:17 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom

That’s why I’m thinking it’s a supplemental income ‘job’ and they simply get paid by the replies.

The more they can stir up (replies), the better their bonus.


67 posted on 04/26/2022 6:22:04 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Heartlander; metmom; CottonBall; Roman_War_Criminal

Dr Robert Malone…

Ivermectin can now be sold in Tennessee over the counter. One of the safest drugs in the world - and now over the counter. I am proud to say that I went down to Tennessee, spoke to legislators and did my best to make this happen.

But I wasn’t alone. CHD TN, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Richard Urso, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. John Littel and many, many others also worked diligently to educate Tennessee lawmakers and it worked!

This isn’t just about ivermectin. It is about generics and off-label drugs. Cheap, effective drugs being denied - while pharma pushes more costly options. As the Internet takes over from in-house physician/patient visits, pharms wants these off-label, generics gone from the computer algorythms. If you think this was all about HCQ or IVM - think again.

https://gettr.com/post/p1727jt8f60


68 posted on 04/26/2022 6:50:22 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Jane Long

Thanks,,,
Sorry I missed this.
I followed a ProVaxxer
Here.


69 posted on 04/26/2022 10:24:08 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (On the Other hand,,, Free Men Choose- - SLAVES OBEY)
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To: logi_cal869

Africans rarely get Covid-19? Has that caused doctors to ask why?


70 posted on 04/27/2022 2:15:42 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

Not without risk to losing their license.


71 posted on 04/27/2022 5:33:22 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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