Wikipedia article of the researcher [0]. UC SF investigated the research in the 2022 and the researcher apologized, saying:<p>> [While] the work I did with colleagues at CMF was considered by many to be appropriate by the standards of the day, [in retrospect] those standards were clearly evolving. I obviously would not work under those circumstances today... I have sincere remorse in relationship to these efforts some decades ago."<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Maibach#:~:text=a%20world%20record.-,controversyedit,-In%20December%202022%2C%20UCSF" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Maibach#:~:text=a%20wor...</a>
I don't see any reference to why this research was being done. The mosquito and pesticide studies seem likely to be DoD/CIA related since they fit neatly in the pattern of other unethical testing we know they were doing. The named researchers were also mentored by someone who did dioxin (Agent Orange) and drug experiments on prisoners for the DoD.
Holy cow. I don’t understand humans. I have to remind myself that the randomness that allows for cruelty is also the well from which incredible people are drawn.
I'm glad the US definitely doesn't perform medical procedures without consent on prisoners anymore!<p><a href="https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2021/05/28/not-just-ice-forced-sterilization-in-the-united-states/#:~:text=The%20Center%20for%20Investigative%20Reporting,federal%20funds%20for%20inmate%20sterilizations" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2021/05/28/not-just-ice-forced...</a>.
Had the university released this any other time of year, more students on campus would be talking about it, maybe doing demonstrations, calling for more action on this and other wrongs, etc.<p>Maybe a student-run newspaper/outlet will do a big feature in early Fall.
Imo, to apologize for something that you didn't actually do is an empty, and quite frankly offensive gesture. It is blatant pandering.<p>I've never been experimented on against my will, but if I was, and 60 years later some kid fresh out of college decided to "apologize" for the brutality that other people carried out against me... uh, can you be any more tone deaf?