Medical school apologizes for unethical experiments on men in California prisons in 1960s-’70s - OregonLive

A salient California aesculapian schoolhouse has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical aesculapian experiments connected astatine slightest 2,600 incarcerated men successful the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and herbicides connected the men’s tegument and injecting it into their veins.

Two dermatologists astatine the University of California, San Francisco — 1 of whom remains astatine the assemblage — conducted the experiments connected men astatine the California Medical Facility, a situation infirmary successful Vacaville that’s astir 50 miles northeast of San Francisco. The signifier was halted successful 1977.