πŸ“‘ 14 Jul 2006: The Guardian > There’s A Devil On The Loose! Porton Down chemical weapons tests unethical, says report.

Rob Evans
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Fri 14 Jul 2006 19.06 EDT
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More than 400 military personnel were deliberately exposed to chemical weapons in government-run experiments which seriously breached ethical standards, an official report has concluded. The men were exposed to painful amounts of nerve gas and mustard gas by scientists at the Porton Down chemical warfare establishment in Wiltshire.

The report published yesterday was commissioned by the Ministry of Defence in 2000, following pressure from many veterans who complained that the experiments had inflicted lasting damage on their health. The ministry asked Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, an expert in scientific ethics, to evaluate the work of the Porton scientists.

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