Unconscious Patients are Being Enrolled in Medical Experiments Without Their Consent
Some Americans are being enrolled in medical experiments without their knowledge or consent while unconscious, according to a new report by journalist Sean Miller.
He explained how an FDA rule that took effect earlier this year allows for this horrifying scenario to take place. It involves the establishment of an exception to the longstanding requirement to obtain informed consent from individuals “when a clinical investigation poses no more than minimal risk to the human subject and includes appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of human subjects.”
At least nine healthcare sites have already started taking advantage of this, automatically enrolling people in clinical trials for dangerous drugs like ketamine and fentanyl – yes, the same fentanyl behind the opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans – when they are administered to patients who are unconscious while being brought by ambulance to the hospital following car accidents and similar incidents.
One such experiment is the Prehospital Analgesia Intervention (PAIN) Trial, which is being led by the University of Pittsburgh with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense.
The medical provider network Guthrie defended its position in a press release, noting: “Because severe traumatic injuries must be treated right away, there may not be time to get consent. Giving consent for medical research usually means reading information, talking with doctors and nurses and having time to think about whether to join. A person with traumatic injury is often not able to do these things.”
Moreover, because family members are usually not around or are unreachable in these emergency scenarios, the researchers are often unable to ask them for content as well.
Although many people would have no problem with ambulance crews administering pain medicine to them in the aftermath of an accident and would have given their consent to it if they were conscious, it is important to keep in mind that once the patient is given either ketamine or fentanyl, they are automatically enrolled in this experiment in some places and therefore expected to keep up with the study protocols for as long as six months afterward.
According to the press release, random trauma patients will be given either ketamine or fentanyl at the nine healthcare sites involved. And even though the FDA rule stipulates that the risks in medical tests involving non-consenting subjects must be minimal, the study openly admits that there are serious side effects involved, acknowledging fentanyl’s potential for addiction and ketamine’s association with hallucinations and other complications.
Opting out is difficult and not foolproof
The only way to opt out of this four-year study appears to be contacting the study’s organizers and asking for a silicone bracelet you can wear indicating your unwillingness to participate. Those living in affected areas, such as rural parts of southern New York and northern Pennsylvania, have received notices in the mail about the study with instructions on how to opt out.
It’s not exactly a foolproof system; even those who do take the time to request a bracelet just in case they are involved in an accident might not be wearing it at the time of the accident or it could even be destroyed during the accident. It’s not clear whether individuals who are not local residents but are brought by EMS to the hospital could also be enrolled.
Ultimately, those who are enrolled in the study are being used as guinea pigs to help the U.S. military.
UPMC trauma surgeon Dr. Jason Sperry explained: “The goal is to help the military to provide the best care for injured personnel, help determine the best pain medicine and determine what are the best short and long-term outcomes when comparing these medications.”
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Toni Kroos: Germany is ‘Not The Same as it Was 10 Years Ago’ Due to ‘Uncontrolled’ Migration
German football heavyweight Toni Kroos has revealed he will continue to live in Madrid following his retirement from football because his home country isn’t what it used to be and he wouldn’t feel comfortable allowing his daughter to roam the streets of big German cities.
In an interview for a podcast with the ZDF public broadcaster, the former Real Madrid midfielder lamented the demise of Germany, a country he left in 2014 to join the Spanish giants.
“I still think Germany is a great country. I like to be there, but it’s not quite the same as it was 10 years ago,” he said.
Asked what he felt had changed, Kroos replied, “If I compare it to Spain. I have a 7-year-old daughter, for example. When she gets older, when she is 13, 14, 15 years old. And if I were to ask someone now, would you let your daughter out in Spain at 2 p.m. or in the German big city?
“I don’t want to be too general, but 10 years ago I would have had a very conscious feeling that she would come home unharmed. I wouldn’t have that now,” he said.
Kroos explained that, after living in Spain for a decade, he did not consider it to be “an aggressive society at all,” but warned that Germany has “become much more aggressive in the last 10 years.”
The German international, who has announced his retirement from football after this summer’s Euro 2024 tournament hosted by Germany, said, “A lot has happened in the last few years which has contributed to the direction [Germany] is going.”
He raised the “big issue of migration” which, while supporting it in principle, warned had been mismanaged.
“In the end, it was just too uncontrolled,” he said, warning that a percentage of new arrivals to Germany did not “do us any good, just like it is with Germans.”
“If you can’t tell from those who don’t do us any good, then it gets difficult in the end,” he added.
Kroos’ concerns regarding safety in German cities are not unfounded with crime stats published by Germany’s federal interior ministry in April revealing that 41 percent of all crime suspects last year were foreign nationals despite representing just 15 percent of the population.
Knife crime jumped 30 percent in one year across Germany with more than half of the suspects being foreigners.
Polling published last week showed a majority of the German public were also concerned about the levels of mass immigration into the country. The Insa survey showed that 74 percent of respondents said the government is failing to take enough action against immigration while 69 percent of respondents called for less migration to Germany, including legal immigration.
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A powerful network of policing agencies, regulators, and industrialists is deciding on the ethics and regulatory framework by which authorities can use the data gathered from motor vehicles. German intelligence agencies in particular are demanding that Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen insert the required interfaces to enable the surveillance.
According to German press reports, meetings between car manufacturers and law enforcement have been ongoing since spring. Intelligence agencies are demanding real-time data on a car’s location, driver history, and even the number of people sitting in the vehicle at any one time.
The surveillance of data generated by cars is a legal grey area, despite a EU ruling in January 2023 to standardise data collection processes, enabling judges and prosecutors to access information on demand, by mandating that companies have ten days to respond to official requests.
EU attempts to grant police access to car data have previously been criticised as being excessive and lacking in the necessary safeguards. Digital rights groups warn that the “new law would treat large parts of the population as criminals before proven otherwise.” Other critics fear that existing European data protection regulations will be violated.
Already notorious for its state-sanctioned harassment of populists Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is clamouring for new powers to surveil car data. More broadly, the issue of how and when policing agencies can snoop on drivers is to be decided by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, which already demarcates similar rules for the use of phone data.
The prospect of a pan-European database for driver identity documents has triggered a negative response from academics. University of Northumbria law professor Carole McCartney lamented that EU citizens could soon be treated as “suspects” even without committing a crime.
The dispute about how to manage data gathered through the automobile industry comes amid a wider EU-wide discussion about AI and facial recognition. Pro-open borders MEPs successfully inserted legal clauses to limit the use of biometric data for border control in the recent AI Act passed in Brussels this year.
BMW, Toyota, and Nissan were among eight companies named last month by U.S. lawmakers as having tapped into user data without proper safeguards when faced with insurance claims. Meanwhile, General Motors faces a class action lawsuit for selling on user data to a third-party firm.
A global phenomenon, growing car surveillance provoked one privacy organisation, ‘Stop Spying,’ to release a report lashing out at the rise of ‘wiretaps on wheels.’ The authors claim that U.S. law enforcement has weaponized dubious car data since at least 2013.
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