Respected mid-century health institutions experimented on poor minorities without consent

Evidence

State conspiracies involving minority communities have not been limited only to surveillance or disinformation. In the mid-twentieth century, respected national health agencies and institutions saw fit to operate and experiment on ordinary citizens who were too ill-informed, powerless, or poor to resist. Their unwitting subjects included convicts, the mentally ill, and even children in orphanages. In each case, the people disproportionately affected were black; nearly as often, they were Latinx or Native American. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 160

Categorization

• XREF: This supplies empirical grounds for the reader’s existing claim that distrust of the state among minorities is warranted, connecting to conspiracy-belief patterns in the vault. — connects to: Generational distrust of medical science in Black families traces to documented experimentation abuses. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 974

Broader Connections

• Generational distrust of medical science in Black families traces to documented experimentation abuses. #expands (0.85) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 974