The book is about actual, real-life secret experiments that were done on people without their informed consent. I was a MRVS at Ft. Detrick, MD, and this book uses our program as a model of how actual medical research CAN and SHOULD be done.
I personally wrote many of the current standard that are being used right before I got out. My document, as I have been told, was read to the Congressional Oversight Committee that oversaw our program, and was adopted wholesale. It added a MRVS representative to the oversight committee, increased the compensation for protocols, and made several other suggestions.
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You shouldve been able to get it for free damnit, if I write a book I dont expect to have to go to the store and buy it unless its for charity purposes.
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When you publish something, Blayne, you don't give free copies to everyone you cite. Not unless you really, really care about their happiness.
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Plus I was only a Pvt, so I had 2 higher ranking people with me, all enlisted. The way it works is as it got passed up the line more people add their names, and the higher ranking people get the lion's share of the credit.
I probably am not even listed as a co-author, even though it was my idea to form the MRVS council in the first place, and all of my ideas were adopted as binding guidelines.
The book is about a lot of experiments, and only a chapter or so is about the MRVS program, mainly to show that research CAN be done while following ethical and moral guidelines. I just find the subject fascinating.
Plus....the book was written years after I left the Army.
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