NUREMBERG DEJA VU
NUREMBERG DÉJÀ VU
Corruption, coercion, and maleficence are afoot and disregard hard-earned lessons from the past. Political and medical leadership who do not know history are doomed to repeat it as they ignore moral and ethical guidelines from an earlier time. If we are to have mandates, they should be to follow wisdom and standards that responded to evil and treachery.
The World War II war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg laid down 10 international standards to which physicians must conform when conducting drug trials or other forms of human experimentation. The principles established by this code for medical practice have been extended into general codes of medical ethics. It has been my observation throughout 40 years of medical practice that physician colleagues both locally and throughout the country have conducted their practices mostly adhering to these standards. Until now.
Here are the ten standards that are now being ignored and discarded in the promotion of the Covid “vaccines”. Bold type are the ten Nuremberg Code standards. Italics responses are mine and explain the observed deviations and violations from the standards.
1. “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him (or her) to make an understanding and enlightened decision. The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.”
This passage outlines most of the ethical violations observed. Informed consent for inclusion or refusal has been mostly ignored. Force, fraud, deceit, duress, constraint and coercion have all been utilized by the public health establishment and politicians to promote these vaccines. Physicians have not accepted the duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent and have abrogated that responsibility to others with impunity.
2. “The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature.”
There were high expectations for the vaccines as they were rolled out in December, 2020. Natural immunity was ignored and alternative treatments denied. It quickly became evident these genetic drugs would not live up to their promises. Rapidly waning effectiveness and breakthrough cases leading to a pandemic of the vaccinated has occurred as these drugs become “random and unnecessary in nature”.
3. “The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease…”
Animal studies were not conducted and SARS Cov 2 virus has been referred to as “novel”, meaning not previously observed in order to understand the natural history of the disease.
4. “The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental sufffering and injury.”
The VAERS data revealed unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury as early as February 2021. Mandates and lockdowns have not contained the virus but have resulted in enormous and unnecessary societal mental, physical, and financial suffering.
5. “No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur…”
Sudden death, myocarditis, strokes, Guillan-Bare syndrome, menstrual irregularities, pulmonary emboli and other clotting events have all been documented shortly after receiving one or two injections or boosters. This association has been known for several months now and is no longer speculative. Those drug-induced injuries have been ignored and the “vaccine” mandates continue.
6. “The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment.”
The World Health Organization (and others) have determined the infection fatality rate for this virus at 0.2% and the case fatality rate at 2%. There is an age and comorbidity stratification of risk such that 80% of Covid deaths occur in patients older than age 75 and the mortality rate in children approaches 0%. The average number of comorbidities in those who succumb to the virus is 4. Low risk individuals including those with natural immunity should not be exposed to vaccine injury.
7. “Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death.”
The inoculations have been given in drive-through parking lots, schools, pharmacies, businesses, just to name a few. “Adequate facilities” and “proper preparations” have not been a concern to the public health establishment to address “even remote possibilities…”
8. “The experiment should only be conducted by scientifically qualified persons. The highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage in the experiment.”
The “highest degree of skill and care”by “scientifically qualified persons” would have focused the vaccine efforts on people at high risk for death and disability from Covid infection rather than a one size-fits-all approach to mass vaccination. Alternative opinions and treatments would have been encouraged and allowed rather than silenced and forbidden.
9. “During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible.”
Government and employer mandates deny the human subject the liberty to refuse the inoculations and end the coercion and constraint.
10. “During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe, in the exercise of the good faith, superior skill and careful judgment required of him that a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.”
Dr. Fauci, the CDC, the FDA, and the public health establishment have shown no careful judgment or good faith in response to the avalanche of vaccine injuries and deaths documented in the VAERS data. By historical standards, the inoculations would have been stopped no later than February, 2021. These scientists and bureaucrats have doubled down on continuing this “experiment” to put a needle in every arm.
The 1964 Declaration of Helsinki is also not to be forgotten as it is a strongly worded international document dealing with medical ethics to which all physicians should adhere. It is morally binding on physicians and that obligation overrides any national or local laws or regulations (or “guidance”). The patient’s welfare must always take precedence over the interests of science and society (Article 5) and ethical considerations must always take precedence over laws and regulations (Article 9).
Because of the CDC and NIH malfeasance and the FDA sleight of hand represented by the Emergency Use Authorization, the pharmaceutical companies were able to shut down the clinical trials and promote the mass vaccination of the entire planet. They have no legal risk, they have no accountability, and the development costs were paid for by the U.S. taxpayers. There is massive and unprecedented conflict of interest as the same U.S. government and various 3-letter agencies who are profiting from these drugs, are now mandating their acceptance. They don’t even need marketing departments for the drugs as governments around the world promote and mandate these “vaccines”.
But make no mistake. From a realistic and practical standpoint, anyone who takes these drugs is a test subject in an experimental drug trial without a data safety monitoring board, no adequate data collection and review, and there is no legal accountability. To say this is not an ongoing ethically challenged experimental drug trial is a distinction without a difference.
For all those people facing the decision of whether to take one of the Covid “vaccines”, consider the following prudent recommendations: Look at the data in the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). Look at the news reports of the “vaccine” ineffectiveness in preventing infection and transmission of the virus. Talk to your doctor and assess your co-morbid risks in case your were to develop a Covid infection. Be assertive and insist upon a full informed consent of the risks and the benefits to receiving the shots. If you have recovered from a Covid 19 infection, check your antibody levels at an approved lab such as LabCorp and be sure and check your T cell immunity. If you have natural immunity, receiving the mRNA shots adds nothing other than the risks of the drugs. If, after all that, you decide you need to take the “vaccines”, then proceed. If you decide not to take the shots, then do not let anyone shame or coerce or mandate you into taking them. They would be in violation of the Nuremberg Code, the Declaration of Helsinki, and widely recognized medical ethics. You would not.
Jack C. Askins, M.D.
January 2, 2022