Posted by
Nick Thompson on
Nov 04, 2013; 5:28pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Message-from-Moscow-tp7584171p7584221.html
Pamela,
I think you may be letting the Doctors off too easy.
Before I accept "forced", I want to see evidence of any "resistance". Did
they use the tools available to them in the chain of command? I suspect
this is going to turn out to be an example of the Milgram Experimental
Paradigm. Essentially, they started out as doctors and ended up cooked
frogs.
But whaddooeyeno.
nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
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I'm not praising data mining without my permission; just saying what
happened, and grateful my eccentricities didn't sent them on a witch hunt.
Yes, I understand what you're saying about the other issues, Arlo. This is
an ugly moment in a civilized country.
And today comes a report from a group of doctors in ethics (IMAP) that
tells us that doctors and other medical workers were forced to aid in
torturing political prisoners. They were told that since "these people
aren't sick" the docs weren't violating their Hippocratic oath "to do no
harm." I presume these doctors were also in the military, and would face
court martial if they refused. Horrible. Just horrible.
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