Conservative leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis is warning about the dangers of unethical human experimentation, urging Canadians to remember lessons of the Nuremberg Code.."Lest we forget those who suffered under these unconscionable experiments by our failure to defend modern day abuses of any human experiment based on coercion," Lewis said in an email sent out to supporters Friday.."The wheels of justice may turn slowly, and may often even seem elusive; but they will always turn in the direction that eventually exposes truth. And, when that happens — there will certainly be a reckoning.".While Lewis did not directly mention COVID-19 or vaccines in the email, many unvaccinated Canadians have been calling for a "Nuremberg 2.0" for months in response to what they see as government coercion and medical experimentation..The Conservative MP explained the Nuremberg Code was created in 1947 as a response to deadly and inhumane experiments Nazi doctors carried out on prisoners of war. A total of 16 people were found guilty, and the findings from the trial evolved into a code meant to protect humans from unethical and dangerous human experimentation..But as Lewis pointed out, unethical experiments still continued in the west. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Africa-Americans were unknowingly withheld syphilis treatments and given placebos, which became infamously known as the Tuskegee experiment..In Canada, more than 1,300 indigenous people were experimented on between 1940 and 1950. Even when children were clearly malnourished, researchers tried to keep them in a state of suffering to preserve the results of the study..Lewis said the experiments on African-American men and indigenous people, all of which lasted for decades, "reminds us that even in modern times the tenets of informed consent and voluntary participation in scientific experiments, can be easily undermined by even our modern governments.".Lewis said Canadians should not forget the lessons of Nuremberg and begin allowing "human experimentation based on coercion.".She said attempts to entice participants, failure to give sufficient information to make an informed decision to participate, and deliberately presenting false information on the treatment outcome to entice enrolment in the clinical trial are all examples of breaking the Nuremberg Code.."Starting with the horrors of Nazi Germany and recognizing human experiments conducted by the US and Canada, the lawsuits that emerged decades later are a stark reminder to governmental officials and scientists that there will always be a reckoning," she said.
Conservative leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis is warning about the dangers of unethical human experimentation, urging Canadians to remember lessons of the Nuremberg Code.."Lest we forget those who suffered under these unconscionable experiments by our failure to defend modern day abuses of any human experiment based on coercion," Lewis said in an email sent out to supporters Friday.."The wheels of justice may turn slowly, and may often even seem elusive; but they will always turn in the direction that eventually exposes truth. And, when that happens — there will certainly be a reckoning.".While Lewis did not directly mention COVID-19 or vaccines in the email, many unvaccinated Canadians have been calling for a "Nuremberg 2.0" for months in response to what they see as government coercion and medical experimentation..The Conservative MP explained the Nuremberg Code was created in 1947 as a response to deadly and inhumane experiments Nazi doctors carried out on prisoners of war. A total of 16 people were found guilty, and the findings from the trial evolved into a code meant to protect humans from unethical and dangerous human experimentation..But as Lewis pointed out, unethical experiments still continued in the west. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Africa-Americans were unknowingly withheld syphilis treatments and given placebos, which became infamously known as the Tuskegee experiment..In Canada, more than 1,300 indigenous people were experimented on between 1940 and 1950. Even when children were clearly malnourished, researchers tried to keep them in a state of suffering to preserve the results of the study..Lewis said the experiments on African-American men and indigenous people, all of which lasted for decades, "reminds us that even in modern times the tenets of informed consent and voluntary participation in scientific experiments, can be easily undermined by even our modern governments.".Lewis said Canadians should not forget the lessons of Nuremberg and begin allowing "human experimentation based on coercion.".She said attempts to entice participants, failure to give sufficient information to make an informed decision to participate, and deliberately presenting false information on the treatment outcome to entice enrolment in the clinical trial are all examples of breaking the Nuremberg Code.."Starting with the horrors of Nazi Germany and recognizing human experiments conducted by the US and Canada, the lawsuits that emerged decades later are a stark reminder to governmental officials and scientists that there will always be a reckoning," she said.