- WTF the Bush administration experimented on CIA detainees so they could work out how to legally torture. This has to be a definitive violation of the Nuremberg Code! http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/06/scott-allen-md-lead.html 294 comments politics
- Non-Consenting Adults - The Nuremberg Code, a set of ethical guidelines for human experimentation, is being routinely ignored http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2012/01/the_nuremberg_code_set_up_to_protect_the_human_subjects_of_research_is_being_routinely_ignored_.html 4 comments politics
- The prosecution of Nazi doctors in 1947 led to the "Nuremberg Code," a set of international rules to protect human test subjects. Many U.S. doctors essentially ignored them, arguing that they applied to Nazi atrocities — not to American atrocities. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41811750/ns/health-health_care 10 comments science
- Virginia Senate to consider bill which, in direct violation of the Nuremberg Code, would allow experimentation on dying or incapacitated human beings without their direct consent. http://www.disaboom.com/blogs/disabled_politico/archive/2009/01/28/virginia-senate-bill-could-permit-research-on-incapacitated-or-dying.aspx 55 comments science