“Have you ever used orphans to study an experimental vaccine?
Plotkin-“Yes.”
“Have you ever used babies of mothers in prison to study an experimental vaccine?”
Plotkin-“Yes.”
And so goes the ghoulish, 8-hour deposition of Stanley Plotkin, possibly the foremost authority on vaccines in the world. Plotkin had decided to intervene in a custody battle in Michigan. The father wanted his child vaccinated, the mother did not. Plotkin apparently thought it would be a quick cakewalk, and it’s highly doubtful he knew he’d be subjected to such a probing deposition from someone familiar with the subject matter. He recused himself from the court case the following day.
Here is just one of many nuggets:
“The question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults and on children who are potentially contributors to society or to perform initial studies in children and adults who are human in form, but not in social potential. It may be objected that this questions implies a Nazi philosophy, but I do not think that it is difficult to distinguish non-functioning persons from members of ethnic, racial, economic, or other groups.”
Unbounded ego, and the insidious capacity of some people to believe they can play God, is on display here. It’s ugly, but is it surprising? Plotkin is just one of many of the pedigreed filth that comprise the academic Praetorian Guard of the pharmaceutical industry, cloaking it in it’s mystique, and it’s facade of white-coated, objective Science.
