Today's WTF?!? moment, brought to you by the NY Times:
The Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to use data from studies in which humans are intentionally doused with pesticides and other toxic substances, as long as strict scientific and ethical standards are met, a National Academy of Sciences report has concluded.
When the hell is it ever ethical to deliberately drop poison on people? My wife can't videotape a kid blowing his nose without getting signatures in triplicate from his parents, and now the NAS is saying, "Sure, go drop toxic substances on those guys. Let us know what happens." Is the head of the NAS named Himmler?
Posted by Jason at February 20, 2004 08:41 AM