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Tens of thousands of people are experimented upon without their consent or knowledge every day in hospitals and clinics all over the world by respected members of the medical profession using misapplied and erroneous diagnostic practices and dangerously invasive therapies. Our friendly family doctor promotes human experiments by being too trusting of the drug companies, too complacent to question or challenge the efficacy of their cures and potions, and too willing to turn a blind eye on the vivisection issue when he is aware that animal tests are useless and drugs are not 'tested' until swallowed by his gullible patients.

That the pharmaceutical companies call for human volunteers upon which to test their potions is an open admission that experiments on animals do not work. This is substantiated in "Human Guinea Pigs Here and Now - Experimentation on man" by M.H. Pappworth who reveals that in Italy the Ministry of Health requires the application for registration of new drugs is accompanied by doctors' reports giving evidence that they have been tested on human subjects. As each report deals with vast numbers of patients conclusions are that thousands of people, often without being aware of it, are undergoing experiments to ascertain the ill-effects of medicaments.

Experiments on human beings, whether voluntary or otherwise, are ethically invalid. No medical expertise is required to reach this conclusion. In addition they are scientifically inconclusive and misleading. Prof. Croce is the highest in his profession medically, he is also, (probably because of this), the world's leading medical abolitionist. He is supported by the combined leagues of medical professionals when he asserts that the dispensing of drugs to healthy volunteers is useless from a scientific viewpoint. The body of a healthy volunteer he says is vastly different to the body of a sick person. Even a simple illness he insists can change many if not all the body's conditions. Experiments can reveal 'indications' which he urges are far too vague to be accepted as scientific terms. We can also think for ourselves and pinpoint other factors. For example, just like animals every human being is unique, owing to hereditary factors, diet and life-style, smoking and alcohol intake, the consumption and combinations of various medicaments, living conditions and social standing, our measure of affluence and our attitude to life, which is heaven for some and hell for others.

The never-ending variables which make the extrapolation of data nothing more than hit-and-miss (like a lottery) between the same species of animals applies a thousand-fold between the human species whose lives are so vastly different and complex we could safely assume that what would cure one could kill another!

Yet another coincidence came about when Radio New Zealand 15 January 1993 announced with obvious pride and satisfaction, that New Zealand volunteers have been selected to participate in a world-wide trial of AIDS drugs. Like the Tamoxifen trials and the mustard gas experiments on volunteers and the Depo-Provera trials and other experiments taking place without the patients' consent, all the 'medical research' cited in this article constitutes hard-line vivisection. Without exception they are all scientifically as well as ethically invalid. Experiments which began on mice and frogs have graduated to experiments on man and even ardent vivisectors are expressing concern about the terrifying and far-reaching implications. Those supporting anti-vivisection societies, especially members of NZAVS should be aware that human experimentation, in all its forms, whether voluntary or otherwise is nothing more than the logical extension of experiments on animals.

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