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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

By ungodly experiments, he means your typical round of vaccinations.

Also, there's a waiver for just about anything in the military. If there's an actual medical concern with vaccinations, then you can apply for a waiver. The problem is when people confuse an actual medical condition with a conspiracy theory they read on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By ungodly experiments, he means your typical round of vaccinations

I doubt that; more likely they were thinking along the lines of agent orange

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

I was thinking more along the lines of the Bikini Atoll tests which included tens of thousands of people in the Navy but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I assume this is what they're talking about: "Under the Defense Authorization Act, the President is authorized to waive the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act's (the act) informed consent requirements in military operations if the President finds that obtaining consent is infeasible or contrary to the best interests of recipients and on an additional ground that obtaining consent is contrary to national security interests."

https://www.fda.gov/science-research/clinical-trials-and-human-subject-protection/protection-human-subjects-informed-consent-exception-general-requirements#:~:text=Under%20the%20Defense%20Authorization%20Act,on%20an%20additional%20ground%20that