Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers--And Why GI's Are Only the First Victims Hardcover - 2004

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How American soldiers were made the subjects of medical experiments that caused debilitating chronic diseases-and why the result could be a terrifying epidemic that affects us all. In the Name of Defense tells a story of betrayal, of medical arrogance flourishing in the absence of public accountability, shielded by an unquestioning deference to national security. Investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto reveals that thousands of young men and women in the U.S. Armed Forces were subjected to medical experiments that were conducted without their knowledge or consent-and that have put them in grave danger. Not only have military scientists performed unethical experiments on U.S. and British soldiers; not only are they refusing to admit either the experiments or the effects they caused; not only are they continuing to use a deadly substance in experimental vaccines-this substance is being developed for use in vaccines intended for mass immunization around the globe. In an alarming narrative, In the Name of Defense recounts this scientific tragedy-from the U.S. Army's tradition of medical experimentation on soldiers through to the present, where the consequences of these experimental vac

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