SiTU
Academy
Alexander
the Great was clearly insane, even by the cultural standards of
his time. According to Diodorus, a month before he mercifully died
(or, more
likely, was assassinated) his own generals invited Babylonian
priests to exorcise the demons that may have possessed him.
Plutarch calls him "disturbed". He describes extreme
mood swings that today would require medication to quell and
control. The authoritative Encyclopedia Britannica attributes to
him "megalomania and emotional instability". It
says:
"He was swift in anger, and under the strain of his long campaigns this side of his character grew more pronounced. Ruthless and self-willed, he had increasing recourse to terror, showing no hesitation in eliminating men whom he had ceased to trust, either with or without the pretense of a fair trial. Years after his death, Cassander, son of Antipater, a regent of the Macedonian Empire under Alexander, could not pass his statue at Delphi without shuddering."
"He was swift in anger, and under the strain of his long campaigns this side of his character grew more pronounced. Ruthless and self-willed, he had increasing recourse to terror, showing no hesitation in eliminating men whom he had ceased to trust, either with or without the pretense of a fair trial. Years after his death, Cassander, son of Antipater, a regent of the Macedonian Empire under Alexander, could not pass his statue at Delphi without shuddering."
SOMEthing
to THINK about
If
you think, that medical experiments on human beings ended with the
defeat of Nazism, you are wrong.
Immediately
after World War 2 medical experiments on prisoners and “marginal
people” started in the USA (probably with assistance of
Nazi-scientists). Unknowly participants were infected with syphilis,
cancer and tuberculosis and refused medicine and treatment. During
the experiment, which lasted till they died, they were carefully
monitored by doctors.
It
were the results that counted, not the way they were obtained. The
experiments in the Nazi-deathcamps were used to train the skills of
the German doctors, operating at the front. The Japanese had a unit,
where the result of grenades and explosives were tested on (living)
Chinese. Joseph Mengele used his data for the Luftwaffe. Goering c.s.
were interested in the fysical effect of high altitude (no oxygen)
and ice-cold water.
Experiments
on human beings have not stopped. The big Pharmaceutical cooperations
still have to experiment on humans when they develop new products.
But the attitude against this kind of testing has changed and only
the desperate participate.
The
solution is founded in testing new medicines in India. Fewer
regulations and lots of volunteers. For the desperate (and there are
many of those in India) a new source of income is generated (as go
for organs).
The
last 2 years or so, more than 200 of the tested people died, to
garantee the safety of our pharmaceutical purchases and the profits
of the big corporations.
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