.UCSFMedicine apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and herbicides on the men's skin and injecting it into their veins. DermTwitter
SAN FRANCISCO — A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and herbicides on the men's skin and injecting it into their veins.
"UCSF apologizes for its explicit role in the harm caused to the subjects, their families and our community by facilitating this research, and acknowledges the institution's implicit role in perpetuating unethical treatment of vulnerable and underserved populations — regardless of the legal or perceptual standards of the time," Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Dan Lowenstein said in a statement.
A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Dana Simas, said officials had not yet read the report. However, the agency and California Correctional Health Care Services"strive to ensure the incarcerated population receive appropriate health care that meets the community standard of care and ethics," Simas wrote.
Other experiments included placing small cages with mosquitos close to the participants' arms or directly on their skin to determine"host attractiveness of humans to mosquitos," the report stated. While Maibach wrote that he regrets having participated in research that does not meet current standards in a letter to the university's dermatology department, he said he believed the experiments had offered benefits to some of the patients.
The report also found that many of Maibach's publications during his career perpetuate the biologization of race — which he addressed in his letter by saying he has now"come to the understanding that race has always been a social and not a biological construct, something not appreciated by so many of us in a prior era."
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