THE NUREMBERG CODE AND ITS IMPACT ON CLINICAL RESEARCH
Posted by Natalie Jarmusik on Tue,
Apr 9, 2019
The Nuremberg Code is one of the most influential documents
in the history of clinical research.
Created more
than 70 years ago following the notorious World War II experiments, this
written document established 10 ethical principles for protecting human
subjects.
We'll take a
closer look at its origins, its guidelines and its enduring impact.
What Is the
Nuremberg Code?
When World War II ended in 1945, the victorious Allied powers enacted
the International Military Tribunal on November 19th, 1945. As part of
the Tribunal, a series of trials were held against major war criminals and Nazi
sympathizers holding leadership positions in political, military, and economic
areas. The first trial conducted under the Nuremberg Military Tribunals
in 1947 became known as The Doctors’ Trial, in which 23 physicians from the
German Nazi Party were tried for crimes against humanity for the atrocious
experiments they carried out on unwilling prisoners of war. Many of the
grotesque medical experiments took place at the Auschwitz concentration camp,
where Jewish prisoners were tattooed with dehumanizing numbers onto their arms;
numbers that would later be used to identify their bodies after death.
The Doctors’
Trial is officially titled “The United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et
al.,” and it was conducted at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Bavaria,
Germany. The trial was conducted here because this was one of the few
largely undamaged buildings that remained intact from extensive Allied bombing
during the war. It is also said to have been symbolically chosen because
it was the ceremonial birthplace of the Nazi Party. Of the 23 defendants,
16 were found guilty, of which seven received death sentences and nine received
prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment. The other 7
defendants were acquitted.
The verdict
also resulted in the creation of the Nuremberg Code, a set of ten ethical principles for human experimentation.
What Are The
Nuremberg Code's Ethical Guidelines For Research?
The Nuremberg
Code aimed to protect human subjects from enduring the kind of cruelty and
exploitation the prisoners endured at concentration camps. The 10 elements of
the code are:
1. Voluntary consent is essential
2. The results of any experiment must be for the greater good of society
3. Human experiments should be based on previous animal experimentation
4. Experiments should be conducted by avoiding physical/mental suffering and injury
5. No experiments should be conducted if it is believed to cause death/disability
6. The risks should never exceed the benefits
7. Adequate facilities should be used to protect subjects
8. Experiments should be conducted only by qualified scientists
9. Subjects should be able to end their participation at any time
10. The scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment when injury, disability, or death is likely to occur
The
Significance Of The Nuremberg Code
The Nuremberg
Code is one of several foundational documents that influenced the
principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Good Clinical
Practice is an attitude of excellence in research that provides a standard for
study design, implementation, conduct and analysis. More than a single
document, it is a compilation of many thoughts, ideas and lessons learned
throughout the history of clinical research worldwide.
Several other documents further expanded upon
the principles outlined in the Nuremberg Code, including the Declaration
of Helsinki, the Belmont
Report and the Common
Rule.
Although there
has been updated guidance to Good Clinical Practice to reflect new trends and
technologies, such as electronic signatures, these basic principles remain the
same. The goal has always been—and always will be—to conduct ethical
clinical trials and protect human subjects.
Topics: Nuremberg
Code, 1947, World War
II
‘Coercion is not consent’: Doctors, attorney
slam coronavirus vaccine blitz
Monday, April 26, 2021 by: News Editors
Tags: America's Frontline Doctors, badhealth, badmedicine, badscience, coercion, COIVD 19 vaccine, coronavirus, disinfo, health freedom, medical fascism, Medical Tyranny, pandemic, Resist, simone gold, vaccines
(Natural News) America’s Frontline Doctors were front and center at the Health and Freedom Conference last week.
(Article
by Dorothy Cummings McLean republished from LifeSiteNews.com)
“We’re really
just fighting for freedom,” founder Dr. Simone Gold told
LifeSiteNews.
Gold was
accompanied at last week’s sellout, 4,000-people-strong gathering by America’s
Frontline Doctors legal director Ali Shultz and Dr. Shelley Cole. The two-day
event was sponsored by Rhema Bible College.
Gold said that
her organization has been noticing that constitutional freedoms are
“evaporating,” and so it has gone in a “legal direction.” At the same time,
they are still conscious of the medical problems Americans are facing,
including not getting early treatment for COVID-19 and being denied mask
exemptions.
Dr. Cole
observed that patients have “real, valid concerns” about masks, and stated that
America’s Frontline Doctors want to give them resources so they can find
answers to their questions.
“There are a
lot of people who have very specific indications that justify mask exemptions,
so we’re trying to help,” she said.
The America’s
Frontline Doctors’ website contains
information of interest to anyone concerned about the coronavirus, its
treatment, its vaccines, mask mandates, and their medical rights. The
organization, which now includes 700,000 people, works with four doctors who
provide informative articles and hundreds of doctors “in terms of clinical care,”
Gold revealed.
Cole told
LifeSiteNews that around 70,000 people have used the organization’s physician
contact service.
“That’s
70,000 lives saved because of America’s Frontline Doctors,” interjected Shultz.
“Can you
imagine? 70,000 people were able to get the help they needed.”
This help
includes medicines that many doctors report have very high success rates of
treating the virus, like hydroxychloroquine.
Gold said the
organization receives letters from patients every day with messages like: “I
was really, really sick. My doctor wouldn’t help me. Thank God for America’s
Frontline Doctors. I got the medicine; within four hours I felt better.”
“There’s just
so many letters like that you can read before you know that they’re lying when
they say that the medicine doesn’t work or is anecdotal,” Gold remarked.
“We have
thousands of those letters.”
Cole believes
that people are waking up to the problems inherent in the medical profession,
and said her organization exists to give people “as much information as (they)
can because there’s been so much disinformation in the last few months.”
In terms of
finding trustworthy sources of information, Cole said that everyone needs to do
their research, learn, and decide for themselves. She recommended reading what
others don’t want you to read.
“If you’re
being censored, you’re probably speaking the truth,” she said.
Shultz added
that “from a legal perspective” and having tracked cases, “It’s always a good
idea to follow the money, too.”
Gold said
that America’s Frontline Doctors is supported by donations from the public.
“We don’t
take any Big Pharma money,” she declared.
“We don’t
take government money. We don’t corporate money. I do think that’s a very smart
place.”
She believes
people should find sources that they already know and trust, having tested for
themselves that they tell the truth.
Regarding the
organization’s development of its legal arm, Shultz said the organization is
“very excited” about the legal resources on their website, including a “network
of attorneys” to whom they can direct people who need help.
Asked about
the Nuremburg Code, which is a set of ethical principles for conducting research
experiments on human beings, Gold said that many people aren’t aware that
COVID-19 vaccines are experimental.
“The problem
is, people are not even registering that this is an experimental medication
(or) all the immorality of forcing anyone to take an experimental medication,”
Gold said.
Shultz, who
is an attorney, said that, quite apart from the Nuremburg Code, the Emergency Use Authorization for use of the new vaccines requires that people who receive it
should have “informed consent.”
“Coercion is
not consent,” she added.
Rebellion
against coercion is growing. Gold told LifeSiteNews that people are now
becoming even more interested in opposing oppressive policies than they are in
finding doctors who will give them medicine to treat COVID-19 at home.
“The most
urgent question I’ve been asked was, ‘How can I get my hands on the stuff,’
right? But that has faded in importance, and the next question that has taken
its place is ‘How can I fight back?,’” she related.
Shultz said
she fought back because she couldn’t bear her kids having to wear masks to
school.
“I was able
to get the mask mandate lifted from my kids’ school,” she said.
“And I want
to help all of your viewers to do the same thing.”
She invited
LifeSiteNews readers to look at the America’s Frontline Doctors’ website and to
combine forces with like-minded people.
“Uniting with
other people in your communities is the only way to stand up to this tyranny,”
Shultz added.
“When one
person says something, that’s fine, but when a large group come together,
(people in power) might listen to you.”
Gold offered
the organization’s “Citizen Corps” as a good training ground for people who want to fight back the
way Shultz did.
“You’ll be
able to meet like-minded folks, stand up, and reclaim freedom,” she said.
Gold has been
on the forefront of challenging the government and media narrative regarding the actual dangers of COVID-19, its effective treatment, masks, lockdowns,
and the current distribution of experimental vaccines. A participant in the January 6 rally on Capitol Hill, the doctor was
stunned when a team of FBI agents broke her door down to arrest
her.
Read more
at: LifeSiteNews.com and HealthFreedom.news.
